Author: DARLEY, LIONEL S.
Title: Bookbinding Then and Now. a survey of the first hundred and seventy-eight years of James Burn & Company
Description: London, Faber and Faber. 1959, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo. Hardback, 160mm x 215mm tall (6.25" x 8.5" approx.). 126pp, with illustrations in the text, some full-page, plus a colour-plate frontispiece, a further colour-plate, 16 b/w photo plates and a plate with an example of a green & gold blocked cover. Endpapers toned, otherwise very good, in the original blue cloth-covered boards/gilt-on-red spine title, and with price-clipped but otherwise very good colour-illustrated dust-wrapper. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Binding Case Cover Book Leather Cloth Gilding Cord-Sewing Case-Making Trimming Cleaning Rebacking Rebindinge Bindings Handcraft Handcrafts Handicraft Handicrafts Hand Craft Crafts Bibliography Vf41 Commerce and Commodities Technology


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