First edition. An excellent analytical study of this founder of modern bookbinding. This work is based on Cobden-Sanderson's Time Book, in which he recorded the volumes he bound between 1884 and 1893. However it has been greatly expanded and updated to include full bibliographical descriptions of all known bindings. There is also a biographical introduction and interesting chapters on the features of Cobden-Sanderson's bindings and his notes on bookbinding. The appendices contain drawings, designs, a list of Cobden-Sanderson's tools, and major exhibitions of his bindings. A very important and magnificently produced book. Illustrated with 200 black-and-white photographs and a colored frontispiece. Signed and dated by the author on the half-title. With the bookplate of Frederick B. Adams, Jr. and also includes a clipped TLS review of the book, the prospectus and other material.