1976. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp.45-52. S-K 6679. In The Book Collector, Volume 25, No.1, Spring 1976. Illustrated. READ MORE about " CRAFT BINDERS AT WORK VI, IVOR ROBINSON ."
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 20535
N.P. Designer Bookbinders Publications Ltd., 2008. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 12 pages. Pamphlet No. 1. Reflections on the life of Philip Smith and his contributions to bookbinding. Includes listing of contributions by or about Smith in The New Bookbinder. from 1981 to 2008. One illustration. READ MORE about PHILIP SMITH AT EIGHTY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 106936
London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1961. small 8vo. cloth. 33 pages of text followed by 72 pages illustrating a selection of the Museum's holdings. S-K 1042. Revised edition. Rubbed along edge. READ MORE about BOOKBINDINGS
Price: $6.00 Order nr. 6184
Hamburg: n.p., 1992. 12mo. stiff paper marbled wrappers. 31+(1) pages. Presented to Deborah M. Evetts by participant in the exhibition. Catalogue of exhibition in Hamburg, September 1992. Foldout of illustrations laid in rear wrapper. Foreword by Eva-Marie Hanebutt-Benz. Vita and list of publications by author. READ MORE about DAS GESICHT DER BUCHER
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 106901
Reprinted from Allgemeiner Anzeiger fur Buchbindereien, Jg.78, Heft 5, 1965, square 8vo., paper wrappers. 27 pages set in double column.
Reprinted from Allgemeiner Anzeiger fur Buchbindereien, Jg.78, Heft 5, 1965, square 8vo., paper wrappers. 27 pages set in double column. With 13 illustrations of binding and rubbings of tools. READ MORE about BUCHBINDERHANDWERK IN HEIDELBERG IN HISTORISCHER SICHT
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 5812
Two volumes bound as one
Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1962. 8vo. cloth with original stiff paper wrappers bound in. xx,351+(1); xxiii,428 pages. Two volumes bound as one. S-K 7781. First editions. "A monumental social history of the German bookbinding trade." Over 50 illustrations in the text. Both volumes bound together in a library buckram binding. Bookplate on front pastedown. READ MORE about DEUTSCHE BUCHBINDER-HANDWERK, HANDWERKS-UND KULTURGESCHICHTE
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 32876
Six parts.
(Paris): Colette Creuzevault, (1983). folio. paper wrappers. (xiii), 14 plates. Six parts. First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies. Very scarce. Loosely-bound (as issued). Light dampstaining on the spine. White paper sticker attached to the slipcase. Else near fine. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about HENRI CREUZEVAULT 1905-1971
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 135760
Stanford: Stanford Libraries Associates, 1978. 8vo., paper wrappers. pp.29-32. In The Imprint of the Stanford Libraries Associates, Volume IV, Number 1, April 1978. History of this group of bookbinders which was founded in 1902. READ MORE about "THE HAND BOOKBINDERS OF CALIFORNIA."
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 38860
Rochester, NY: Rochester Institute of Technology, 2000. large 8vo. cloth. 123, (3) pages. First edition. A fine copy. Since the appearance of The Binder's Art in 1989, respected bookbinding historian and craftsman Bernard C. Middleton continued to add to his collection of books and ephemera on the history and techniques of bookbinding, begun in the 1940s. Numbering about 2,000 volumes, the love of Middleton's professional life is now installed in the Cary Graphic Arts Collection..... READ MORE about HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE BERNARD C. MIDDLETON COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON BOOKBINDING, TOGETHER WITH...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 62321
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1988. 8vo. later quarter cloth, marbled paper covered boards with original stiff paper wrappers printed in two colors bound-in. (16) pages. Reprint of the 1852 magazine article which had appeared in Godey's Magazine with a foreword by Robert Fleck. One of the best references to what a trade binding house looked like in the middle of the 19th century. Enhanced by 17 illustrations by Hinckley showing various scenes in the..... READ MORE about A DAY AT THE BOOKBINDERY OF LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO, & CO
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 118133
København: Edmont H. Petersens Kg. Hof-Bogtrykkeri, 1924. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 71, (7) pages. Exhibition catalogue describing 420 books. Illustrated. Covers faded. Ink inscription on inside front cover. With a few textual corrections in ink. READ MORE about HISTORISKE OG MODERNE BOGBIND UDSTILLEDE AF UNIVERSITETSBIBLIOTEKET I FORENING MED...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 72426
København: Egmont H. Petersens, 1924. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 12, viii, 13-71, (7) pages. Exhibition catalogue devoted to bookbinding. 420 items described with illustrations of many. READ MORE about HISTORISKE OG MODERNE BOGBIND, UDSTILLEDE AF UNIVERSITETSBIBLIOTEKET I FORENING MED...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 72269
Baltimore: Walter Art Gallery, 1957. 4to. paper wrappers. xi, 275 pages. First edition, limited to 3000 copies. A good copy. 56 pages of plates. A valuable reference book on the subject of binding. The paper bound edition. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING 525-1950 A.D., AN EXHIBITION HELD AT THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 5814
Baltimore: Walter Art Gallery, 1957. 4to. paper wrappers. xi, 275 pages. First edition, limited to 3000 copies. Very good conditino. 56 pages of plates. A valuable reference book on the subject of binding. The paper bound edition. READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING 525-1950 A.D., AN EXHIBITION HELD AT THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 115267
Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1957. 4to. cloth. xi, 275 pages. S-K 811. An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. First edition, limited to 3000 copies. 56 pages of plates. A valuable reference book on the subject of binding. Exlibrary with markings. READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING 525-1950 A.D
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 5813
New York: Cambridge University Press, (1989). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xix, 296 pages. First edition. Spine of jacket lightly faded, with very tears to edges, else fine. An important new study of north Italian and Parisian bindings which examines the transformation of decorative binding in the later half of the fifteenth century. Successive chapters discuss the influence of Islamic sources; classical sources; coins, medals and plaquettes; etc. Included in the appendices is an interesting article..... READ MORE about HUMANISTS AND BOOKBINDERS, THE ORIGINS AND DIFFUSION OF THE HUMANISTIC BOOKBINDING 1459-1559 WITH...
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 28120
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1929. folio. cloth, top edge gilt. (xii), 60 pages followed by 55 full-page plates of bindings. Printed in an edition limited to 500 copies for sale by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press. (Appleton p.81, S-K 2194). This book is divided into two sections, the Early Bindings, before 1300 and the Gothic Bindings, c.1450-1500. Given as the Sandars Lecture for 1927. A scarce book. Covers faded. With the Randeria bookplate..... READ MORE about ENGLISH BINDING BEFORE 1500
Price: $187.50 Order nr. 71367
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1929. folio. original turquoise cloth, top edge gilt. (xii), 60 pages followed by 55 full page plates of bindings. Printed in an edition limited to 500 copies for sale by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press. (Appleton p.81, S-K 2194). Lacking the dust jacket. Minor rubbing to the boards, else a near fine copy. This book is divided into two sections: Early Bindings, before 1300 and the Gothic Bindings, c.1450-1500..... READ MORE about ENGLISH BINDING BEFORE 1500
Price: $165.00 Order nr. 5818
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1929. folio. cloth, top edge gilt. (xii), 60 pages followed by 55 full page plates of bindings. Printed in an edition limited to 500 copies for sale by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press (Appleton p.81, S-K 2194). Ex-library. Table of contents, list of plates, acknowledgments, list of plates, eleven appendices. This book is divided into two sections, the Early Bindings, before 1300 and the Gothic Bindings, c.1450-1500. Given..... READ MORE about ENGLISH BINDING BEFORE 1500
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 130533
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1926. 4to. cloth, top edge gilt. xvi, 178 pages of text with 64 full-page plates. First U.S. edition. (Appleton p. 81). With six of the plates in color. A historical account of plaquette bindings, architectural bindings, and studies of the binders Maiolus, Failareto, Canevari, and Farnese. Spine faded. Bookplate of John Arnold Holland on front pastedown with Holland's signature in ink below bookplate. Endpapers toned with small remnant of decription..... READ MORE about MAIOLI, CANEVARI AND OTHERS
Price: $145.00 Order nr. 13950
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, (1974). 4to. cloth with color printed paper front cover label. 101 pages. First edition. Many illustrations with some in color. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about BOOKCRAFT, HOW TO CONSTRUCT NOTE PAD COVERS, BOXES, AND OTHER USEFUL ITEMS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 102757
Santiago: Ismael Espinosa, 1986. 4to. limp boards, slipcase. 65, (3) pages. Limited to 275 numbered copies. With an eight page translation from Spanish to English loosely inserted. Contains 16 color plates, mostly of bindings executed in Chile during the 19th century. According to the publisher, only the second book on South American bindings to be issued. Minor soiling to slipcase, else fine condition. READ MORE about ENCUADERNACIONES ARTISTICAS HECHAS EN CHILE DURANTE EL SIGLO 19
Price: $135.00 Order nr. 18677
Hamilton: McMaster University, (1975). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (42) pages. First separate edition. Illustrated typescript. Signed and dated by Terry Belanger on inside front cover. READ MORE about PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION, A BRIEF HISTORY, AND AN ACCOUNT OF WORK BEING DONE AT MILLS...
Price: $22.00 Order nr. 38625
Hamilton: McMaster University, (1975). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (42) pages. First separate edition. Illustrated typescript. READ MORE about PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION, A BRIEF HISTORY, AND AN ACCOUNT OF WORK BEING DONE AT MILLS...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 38728
New York: Empire State Book Co., 1927. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. xxiv, 232 pages. S-K 1819. Front pastedown spotted. Second impression of the second edition but with a new editor note by A.W. Pollard. (Brenni no.232). With 12 illustrations and 2 figures. Part of the Books about Books Series edited by Pollard. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about BINDING OF BOOKS, AN ESSAY IN THE HISTORY OF GOLD-TOOLED BINDINGS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 42920
