(Bookbinding). Middleton, Bernard C.

THE RESTORATION OF LEATHER BINDINGS.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2004. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 309 pages + 8 color plate pages. Fourth edition, revised and expanded from the 1998 edition. Fine condition. A welcome new addition in this book is a full-color section for the identification of leather and marbled papers. From the author of A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique, this classic in the field of bookbinding is a practical guide to the restoration..... READ MORE about THE RESTORATION OF LEATHER BINDINGS

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134556

(Bookbinding). Miller, Julia.

BOOKS WILL SPEAK PLAIN: A HANDBOOK FOR IDENTIFYING AND DESCRIBING HISTORICAL BINDINGS.

Ann Arbor, MI: Legacy Press, 2010. 8vo. full leather, clamshell box. 528 pages, 374 illustrations. Books Will Speak Plain is published at a time when the historical book is at risk of being ignored, put away, and forgotten. This handbook combines an overview of the history of the codex with basic information about many of the materials and structures found on historical bindings. The book also includes description-survey guidelines and is supported by a variety..... READ MORE about BOOKS WILL SPEAK PLAIN: A HANDBOOK FOR IDENTIFYING AND DESCRIBING HISTORICAL BINDINGS

Price: $1,450.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135130

(Bookbinding). Nixon, Howard M.

FIVE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH BOOKBINDING.

London: The Scolar Press, (1978). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 232, (9) pages. S-K 136. First edition. (Brenni no.759). One hundred articles on bookbinding that originally appeared in The Book Collectorhave been combined into one volume. Contains 100 plates of important bindings and a page of descriptive text about each. READ MORE about FIVE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH BOOKBINDING

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 2457

(Bookbinding). Pigliapoco, Sauro, Giuseppe Guzzini, Antonio Toccaceli, Michel Wittock, et al.

MAESTRI RILEGATORI PER L'INFINITO: PRIMA MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE DI RILEGATURA D'ARTE IN ITALIA, MACERATA, 12 SETTEMBRE-30 OTTOBRE 1998.

Macerata: Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio della Provincia di Macerata, 1998. 4to. full decorated leather, clamshell box. 578, (14) pages. First edition. The catalogue of an international bookbinding competition and exhibition organized by the Provincia di Macerata. Competitors were asked to design bindings for the poem L'Infinito by Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). This particular copy is bound in full morocco by Monique Lallier. The covers are leather and suede onlays depicting an oceanic view of..... READ MORE about MAESTRI RILEGATORI PER L'INFINITO: PRIMA MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE DI RILEGATURA D'ARTE IN ITALIA,...

Price: $1,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134374

(Bookbinding). Roberts, Matt T. and Don Etherington.

BOOKBINDING AND THE CONSERVATION OF BOOKS, A DICTIONARY OF DESCRIPTIVE TERMINOLOGY.

Washington: Library of Congress, 1982. 4to. leather, clamshell box. x, 297 pages. S-K 353. With foreword by Frederick R. Goff. Contains thousands of terms and definitions which deal with the binding, care and repair of books. With a bibliography listing 373 related sources. Illustrated. This copy is beautifully bound by Mary Baughman of the conservation department at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas: Austin, with Don Etherington being the designer. Full green..... READ MORE about BOOKBINDING AND THE CONSERVATION OF BOOKS, A DICTIONARY OF DESCRIPTIVE TERMINOLOGY

Price: $650.00  other currencies  Order nr. 126271

(Bookbinding). Shepherd, Rob.

LOST ON THE TITANIC.

London, England: Shepherds Sangorski & Sutcliffe and Zaehnsdorf, 2001. 4to. leather, cloth clamshell box, leather spine label with title and author in gilt. x, 60, (2) pages. Limited to 750 numbered copies, of which this was one of the unnumbered copies set aside in sheets for bookbinders. This particular copy is bound in full goatskin, with marbled leather onlays spelling out the title on the front cover on top of 'ribbed' textured leather grids, in..... READ MORE about LOST ON THE TITANIC

Price: $2,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134363

(Bookbinding).

SOCIALISM: AN EXHIBITION OF DESIGNER BINDINGS IN THE COLLECTION OF LORD TOM SAWYER OF DARLINGTON.

(London, England: Designer Bookbinders), 2008. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 39+(1) pages. Introduction by Sawyer, foreword by Tristam Hunt. Color illustrations and descriptive text about specially bound books about socialism. Exhibited at the House of Lords in Westminster. READ MORE about SOCIALISM: AN EXHIBITION OF DESIGNER BINDINGS IN THE COLLECTION OF LORD TOM SAWYER OF DARLINGTON

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135046

(Bookbinding). Stein, Ruth.

BINDINGS.

N.P. by the author, 2016. 4to. cloth, leather design on front cover. unpaginated. Second printing. Introduction, acknowledgments. Originally published for the author's family on the occastion of her 90th birthday. Color illustrations with descriptive text of works produced by Stein over her many years as an amateur bookbinder. Frontispiece and color illustrations throughout text. READ MORE about BINDINGS

Price: $50.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134876

(Bookbinding).

TREGASKIS CENTENARY EXHIBITION, A CATALOGUE OF THE TREGASKIS CENTENARY EXHIBITION 1994, TOGETHER WITH A FACSIMILE OF THE TREGASKIS EXHIBITION CATALOGUE OF 1894 AND COLOUR PLATES OF THE BINDINGS IN BOTH EXHIBITIONS.

With Introductions by Marianne Tidcombe and an Essay by Bernard C. Middleton.
London: Designer Bookbinders, 1994. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. Not paginated. With Introductions by Marianne Tidcombe and an Essay by Bernard C. Middleton. Limited to 1000 copies. With many illustrations in color. READ MORE about TREGASKIS CENTENARY EXHIBITION, A CATALOGUE OF THE TREGASKIS CENTENARY EXHIBITION 1994, TOGETHER...

Price: $40.00  other currencies  Order nr. 44689

(Bookbinding). Wilcox, Michael.

TWELVE BINDINGS. WITH REMARKS ON THE BINDINGS BY MICHAEL WILCOX & ON THE BOOKS BY ELAINE SMYTH & W. THOMAS TAYLOR.

Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1985. tall 4to. full leather, clamshell box. (42) pages. First edition, limited to 225 numbered copies. This copy is bound in a full artist-binding by Don Etherington, bookbinder and former director of Conservation at both the Library of Congress and the Harry Ransom Center (Austin, TX). The binding is a full crushed red moracco with black goat leather and blue crushed moracco onlaid leather strips. Gilt dotted tooling. Duel moracco and..... READ MORE about TWELVE BINDINGS. WITH REMARKS ON THE BINDINGS BY MICHAEL WILCOX & ON THE BOOKS BY ELAINE...

Price: $2,950.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135133

(Boss Dog Press). Eberhardt, Fritz.

THREE LECTURES.

Plains, PA: Boss Dog Press, 2014. 8vo. paper-covered boards, labels on spine and front cover, top edge cut, other edges uncut. iv, 39+(1) pages. Limited to 100 numbered copies, 70 numbered and signed by Don Rash, writer of the introduction and designer of this work. Moku hanga woodblock print color frontispiece after a photograph by A. Pierce Bounds. Three lectures on bookbinding by a noted artist, bookbinder, and calligrapher. READ MORE about THREE LECTURES

Price: $225.00  other currencies  Order nr. 122981

(Bougie, Louis-Pierre). Van Schendel, Michel.

LOUIS-PIERRE BOUGIE: ABSENCE DE BRUIT.

(Dinan, QC, Canada: Lacerte Art Contemporain, 2005). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 35+(1) pages. Text in French. Presentation by the author on title. Catalogue of an exhibition at Lacerte and the Galerie Orange. READ MORE about LOUIS-PIERRE BOUGIE: ABSENCE DE BRUIT

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134607

(Bougie, Louis-Pierre).

LOUIS-PIERRE BOUGIE: ABSENCE DE BRUIT.

(Québec, QC, Canada: Galerie Orange, 2005). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 35+(1) pages. Text in French. Catalogue of an exhibition of the works of Louis-Pierre Bougie. Color illustrations. READ MORE about LOUIS-PIERRE BOUGIE: ABSENCE DE BRUIT

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135003