Order Nr. 134201 BRITISH BOOKBINDINGS PRESENTED BY KENNETH H. OLDAKER TO THE CHAPTER LIBRARY OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Howard M. Nixon.

BRITISH BOOKBINDINGS PRESENTED BY KENNETH H. OLDAKER TO THE CHAPTER LIBRARY OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

(Bookbinding).
  • London: Maggs Bros. Ltd., 1982.
  • 8vo.
  • cloth.
  • 159 pages.

Price: $30.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 134201

S-K 3527. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. With three colored plates and sixty-eight half-tone illustrations of bindings. All seventy-one bindings are described in detail and are accompanied by an illustration. Includes the work of Harding, Mearne, Bartlett, Edwards of Halifax, Guild of Women-Binders, and others including McLeish and Cockerell. Lightly soiled on the front / rear covers and spine, which were bound upside down.