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TRADE BOOKBINDING IN THE BRITISH ISLES, 1660-1800
Bennett, Stuart

- New Castle and London : Oak Knoll Press and the British Library 2004 - small 4to. - cloth, dust jacket - 176 pages - ISBN 9781584561309 ; 1584561300 / Order Nr. 93908 - Price: $ 85.00

First edition. This book is the first illustrated guide to this complex and controversial subject. In 1930, in The Evolution of Publishers' Binding Styles, Michael Sadleir declared that "the bookseller-publisher of the decades from 1730 to 1770 issued his books either in loose quires, or stitched, or a most in a plain paper wrapper." This view is still generally accepted. Bennett, however, presents new documentary and visual evidence that books were predominantly sold ready-bound in sheep, calf, and goat as well as boards and wrappers. Over 200 color illustrations show what these bindings looked like, and how their styles evolved.

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