Author: RAMSDEN (Charles)
Title: French Bookbinders 1789-1848.
Description: London: Printed for the Author by Lund Humphries & Co. Ltd. 1950. First Edition, 4to, xiv, 228pp., frontis., 40 plates, orig. buckram, t.e.g. a fine copy. This book consists of an alphabetical list of about 1,500 French binders who were at work during the period, precede by a dozen pages of introductory matter and illustrated by 40 collotype plates. In his choice of plates Mr Ramsden has avoided examples by binders already well illustrated elsewhere and concentrated on less-known craftsmen or the less-known aspect of the great masters.

Keywords: BOOKBINDING