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FOR THE LOVE OF THE BINDING: STUDIES IN HISTORICAL BOOKBINDING PRESENTED TO MIRJAM FOOT.
Pearson, David
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First edition. Twenty-six of the world's most prestigious bookbinding experts have contributed essays reflecting Mirjam Foot's own research interests, particularly the placement of bindings in their historical context. A sample list of subjects and authors in the book are: "The Mysterious Mr. de Sauty" by Marianne Tidcombe; "Some unrecorded sixteenth-century French bookbindings" by Nicolas Barker; "Ticketed Bindings - a hundred years of European bookbinding" by Nicholas Pickwoad; "The Keatley Trust Collection of modern British Bindings" by Dorothy A. Harrop; "John Wittaker's edition of the Magna Carta, its printing, and his bindings on the Wormsley copies" by Bryan Maggs. Other authors include Anthony Hobson, Lotte Hellinga, David Pearson, Robin Myers, and more. SALES RIGHTS: Available in North & South America from Oak Knoll Books. Available outside North & South America from The British Library.
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THE TERM CATALOGUES, 1668-1709 A.D., WITH A NUMBER FOR EA...
by Arber, Edward
First edition, one of the 1000 numbered small paper copies signed by Arber. (Besterman p.2011). Edited reprint of the original catalogues which were issued by English booksellers and publishers to show what books were available to students. A wealth of information for the student of the book during this period. Covers unevenly faded and lightly marked and rubbed. Hinges solid.
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