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(Bookbinding) Cox, Alfred J. THE MAKING OF THE BOOK, A SKETCH OF THE BOOK-BINDING ART.
Edited with an Introduction by Paul S. Koda. New Castle Oak Knoll Books 1986 8vo. cloth. 88 pages.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 14697

Table of contents

Contents 

Introduction                                             9 
  Notes                                                 29 
  References                                            33 
The Making of the Book  
  A Sketch of the Book-Binding Art                      39 
  A Few Hints                                           50 
  Bookbinding in Chicago                                52 
  Price List                                            56 
  Commendations                                         77 
Index 85 


Illustrations 

Upper Cover of The Making of the Book             frontis. 
Advertisement for Cox & Donohue Bookbindery             10 
Location of Cox Bindery from 1882 to 1892               13 
Upper Cover of J. Fred Waggoner's Home Cook Book (1875) 24 
Cox's Lower Doublure for Uzanne's L'Art dans 
la decoration exterieure des livres                     26 


 


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