Order Nr. 5730 DANISH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BINDINGS, 1730-1780
DANISH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BINDINGS, 1730-1780
DANISH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BINDINGS, 1730-1780
DANISH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BINDINGS, 1730-1780
DANISH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BINDINGS, 1730-1780
DANISH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BINDINGS, 1730-1780
DANISH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BINDINGS, 1730-1780
DANISH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BINDINGS, 1730-1780

DANISH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BINDINGS, 1730-1780.

(Bookbinding).

With an Introduction by Sofus Larsen and Anker Kyster

  • Copenhagen, Denmark & London, England: Levin & Munksgaard Publishers / Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930.
  • 4to.
  • cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label.
  • frontispiece, 53 pages followed by the plates.

Price: $125.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 5730

First edition. (Brenni no.482). Inscribed on first blank page by Clara and Hardy Steeholm to the bookbinder Alfred Knight Potter. Lacking the dust jacket. Extremities lightly worn, label chipped with small piece missing (not affecting the lettering). Overall a well-preserved copy of this scarce book.

Contains 102 reproductions (101 plates, plus the unnumbered frontispiece) of bindings with many in full color meant to be identified by the binders' bills. Text in English with summary in Danish. The index follows the introduction. Includes books relating to the King of Denmark and the private collection of the Royal Library.