Sutcliffe, George ( 1878-1943 )
An English bookbinder apprenticed to Maudie's
Library and then employed in the shop of Douglas
Cockerell in 1899. In 1901, Sutcliffe and FRANCIS SANGORSKI
opened their own bindery and began producing the
jewelled bindings on which their great reputation
was largely built. Of the hundreds of such
bindings, the finest and their most outstanding
achievement was a binding known as theGREAT OMAR . (94 , 236 )
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