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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. - cloth. - 206 pages. - ISBN 9781884718984 ; 1884718981 / Order Nr. 54990 - Price: $ 65.00 View Table of Contents

First edition, the hardbound variant. 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 reference book in the study of English binding.

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