Little is known about Gloria Cardew. She is believed to have been born in about … subscribers only
Title page of The Sensitive Plant by Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Aldine Gouse, 1898) illustrated by Laurence Housman and hand-coloured by Gloria Cardew.
Bibliography
1. Collins, Denis. ‘Gloria Cardew: colourist of the 1890s’. IBIS Jornal vol. 5, 2014 pp. 74-91 2. Tidcombe, Marianne. Women Bookbinders 1880-1920. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 1996 p. 126