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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE BERNARD C. MIDDLETON COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON BOOKBINDING, TOGETHER WITH SELECTED ESSAYS BY BERNARD C. MIDDLETON ON THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF BOOKBINDING.
First edition. Since the appearance of The Binder's Art in 1989, respected bookbinding historian and craftsman Bernard C. Middleton continued to add to his collection of books and ephemera on the history and techniques of bookbinding, begun in the 1940s. Numbering about 2,000 volumes, the love of Middleton's professional life is now installed in the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology where it is fully available to students and scholars in its own reading room. This catalogue describes and illustrates in color 34 highlights from Middleton's collection and is complemented by four classic Middleton essays updated, where appropriate, for this compilation.
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> Maggs 893, BOOKBINDING IN GREAT BRITAIN, SIXTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
> Minsky, Richard, THE ART OF AMERICAN BOOK COVERS.
> Maggs 893, BOOKBINDING IN GREAT BRITAIN, SIXTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
> Bundock, Clement J., THE STORY OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF PRINTING, ...
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MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF JOHN BOWDLER, ESQ.
by Bowdler, John
First edition. Presentation copy. John Bowdler (1746-1823), a writer on religious and church affairs, was the author of Select Pieces in Verse and Prose (1818). Inscribed "From the Author" on the half title. Bookplates are on the front paste down and the front free endpapers, both from the Locker family. There are a few notes in pencil scattered throughout from a previous owner. Front free endpaper is loose. Boards are rubbed and worn around the edges with light staining and some small scratches. Parts of the gilt border on both covers is worn off. The front hinge has cracked.
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