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THE MAKING OF THE BOOK, A SKETCH OF THE BOOK-BINDING ART.
Cox, Alfred J.
Edited with an Introduction by Paul S. Koda.
During the second half of the nineteenth century, the Cox bindery was the largest in the Mid-West. Housed in Chicago's famous publishing emporium - the Lakeside Building - the firm bound books for R. R. Donnelley and the Chicago Public Library. This book is a facsimile reprint of a trade catalogue which was first published in 1878. It describes the different kinds of binding done by the firm and includes a forty-page price list for different binding sizes and styles, thereby providing first-hand documentation for hundreds of binding variations. There is also a lengthy new introduction by Paul Koda. Volume III in the Oak Knoll Series on the History of the Book. Bookplate.
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ELEMENTS OF ELECTRO-METALLURGY, OR THE ART OF WORKING IN ...
by Smee, Alfred
First edition. (Bridson & Wakeman A113 - "the first appearance of a key work on this subject"). Illustrated with electrotypes and woodcuts. The author was the inventor of the improved battery, which was the mainstay of electrotyping until replaced by the dynamo in the late 1870s. Illustrated with woodcuts. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Faint stain mark on front pastedown and endpaper.
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