Author: McLEAN (Ruari)
Title: Victorian Publishers Book-Bindings in Cloth and Leather.
Description: Gordon Fraser. 1974. First Edition, 4to, 160pp., handsomely illustrated with 150 of the finest examples, showing 24 in full colour, orig. cloth, d.w. The evolution of publishers' bindings from the printed paper wrapper normally used at the beginning of the 19th century through the introduction of cloth by Pickering in about 1820 and on through the heyday of gold and coloured blocking to the end of the Victorian period.

Keywords: BOOKBINDING