Paris: Gumuchian & Cie, n.d. (circa 1930s). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. vi, 182 pages and 135 plates of bindings including some in full color. Catalogue no.12 issued by this bookselling firm. (Brenni no.288). The catalogue has descriptions of 398 bindings with well over one-third of them illustrated. The descriptions are detailed and the text is aided by indices to provenance and authors. Crease through middle of dust jacket; chipping along edges of jacket being more.....
(London, England: Guild of Women-Binders), n.d., but circa 1900. 12mo. cloth, front cover silver-stamped. 87+(1) pages. First edition, limited to roughly 3,000 copies (Tidcombe, p. 126). Cover title: A Souvenir of the St. James's Theatre. Attributed to the Guild of Women-Binders, organized in May 1898 by London bookseller Frank Karslake more as a business venture than as a guild in the traditional sense of that word. He abandoned this effort in 1904. This work traces.....