Order Nr. 36994 THE HISTORY OF DECORATED BOOKBINDING IN ENGLAND. Howard M. Nixon, Mirjam M. Foot.
THE HISTORY OF DECORATED BOOKBINDING IN ENGLAND.
THE HISTORY OF DECORATED BOOKBINDING IN ENGLAND.
THE HISTORY OF DECORATED BOOKBINDING IN ENGLAND.
THE HISTORY OF DECORATED BOOKBINDING IN ENGLAND.
THE HISTORY OF DECORATED BOOKBINDING IN ENGLAND.

THE HISTORY OF DECORATED BOOKBINDING IN ENGLAND.

(Bookbinding).
  • Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
  • 8vo.
  • cloth.
  • xviii, 124 pages followed by 128 plates in black and white and some plates in color in text.

Price: $125.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 36994

First edition. A fine copy. This book is based on Howard Nixon's Lyell Lectures presented in 1979 with expansion by Mirjam Foot. The text covers binding from its beginnings in England up to the 20th century work of Edgar Mansfield. Very scarce book. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included.