Author: HORNE H.P.
Title: The Binding of Books. An Essay in the History of Gold-Tooled Bindings. Second Edition.
Description: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co.,, 1895. 8vo., Second Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 8 plates, free endpapers mildly browned; original brown buckram, backstrip with paper label, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the art nouveau-style pictorial bookplate of E H Glover on front paste-down. A very nice copy of Horne' famous essay, first published (with three extra plates) a year earlier in the 'Books About Books' series edited by A W Pollard.

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