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TICKETED BOOKBINDINGS FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN WITH AN ESSAY BY BERNARD MIDDLETON
Spawn, Willman and Thomas E. Kinsella

- Bryn Mawr : Bryn Mawr College Library & Oak Knoll Press 1999 - small 4to. - stiff paper wrappers. - 206 pages. - ISBN 9781884718953 ; 1884718957 / Order Nr. 106374 - Price: $ 65.00

First edition. The paper wrappers depict various binder's tickets in color. Well-illustrated exhibition catalogue including plates in color. Foreword by Elliot Shore, Director of Libraries, followed by historical information on binding. The first 219 bindings are described in great detail, including information on the binder. This is followed by shorter descriptions of 485 ticketed bindings also in the collection but not pictured. An important new reference book in the study of English binding. Signed by both authors on the title page.

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