Sangorski, Francis ( 1875-1912 )
An English bookbinder apprenticed to Charles
Ferris and employed in the workshop of Douglas
Cockerell in 1899. In 1901 Sangorski and the
English bookbinder GEORGE SUTCLIFFE
opened their own bindery, which is still in
operation, and commenced producing the fine
jeweled bookbindings on which, over the course of
years, their great reputation was largely built.
Of the hundreds of such volumes they executed, the
most outstanding, and their crowning achievement,
was a binding known as theGREAT OMAR . (94 , 236 , 347 )
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