TRADE BOOKBINDING IN THE BRITISH ISLES, 1660-1800.
New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and the British Library, 2004. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 176 pages. First edition. This book is the first illustrated guide to this complex and controversial subject. In 1930, in The Evolution of Publishers' Binding Styles, Michael Sadleir declared that "the bookseller-publisher of the decades from 1730 to 1770 issued his books either in loose quires, or stitched, or a most in a plain paper wrapper." This view..... READ MORE about TRADE BOOKBINDING IN THE BRITISH ISLES, 1660-1800
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