BINDINGS IN CAMBRIDGE LIBRARIES, SEVENTY-TWO PLATES. WITH NOTES BY G.D. HOBSON. BASED ON RESEARCHES BY N.F. BARWELL, H.M. DAVIES AND THE LATE CHARLES E. SAYLE.
- Cambridge: University Press, 1929.
- folio
- cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut.
- xvi, 180 pages.
Price: $1,300.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 5816
Printed in an edition limited to 230 copies for sale by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press (Appleton p. 81, S-K 982). With the private bookplate of Michael Laird on the front free endpaper. Lacking the dust jacket. Minor rubbing to extremities, else a fine copy.
With 72 full-page plates of bindings including many in full color. Divided into the following groups: A. Preliminary, 1190-1450; B. Gothic, 1470-1520; C. Renaissance, 1520-1590; D. Early Stuart, 1605-55; E. Late Stuart and Early Georgian, 1660-1750. Each binding shown is accompanied by a long description of the binding, information on previous ownership and historical remarks. Hobson gives indices of owners, binders, booksellers, craftsmen, initials and monograms of binders and owners, binding centers and subjects of stamps and panels. Of extra interest are the many other examples that Hobson gives of similar bindings that he knows of in other collections, with information on ownership, pressmark, references to it by other scholars and if any reproductions have occurred. Hobson also describes 45 other Cambridge bindings that have been reproduced in other books.