A MANUAL OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING CONTAINING FULL INSTRUCTIONS IN THE DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF FORWARDING, GILDING AND FINISHING. Also, the Art of Marbling Book-Edges and Paper, the Whole Designed for the Practical Workman, the Amateur, and the Book-collector.
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1856. 8vo. quarter blue leather over vellum-covered boards, cloth clamshell box with original cloth boards of the first edition incorporated into the binding, binder's stamp on the rear paste-down of the book 'DON RASH 2026'. 318, (2), 18 pages. First edition of this manual on bookbinding, of which is the first authored by an American (Mejer 1950; Appleton p.83; Brenni no.39 - for first edition). This copy has been rebound by..... READ MORE about A MANUAL OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING CONTAINING FULL INSTRUCTIONS IN THE DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF...
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