Author: Burlington Fine Arts Club. Duff, E. Gordon; Prideaux, Sarah Treverbian Title: Exhibition of Bookbindings
Description: London, Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1891. First edition. Modern brown cloth with original titles from front board laid down. lxi pp. 1 lv. 132 pp. Illus. with color folding frontis & CXIII (i.e. 114) plates. (111 colored), each plate with guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Folio. A lavishly illustrated catalogue of a comprehensive loan exhibition of nearly nine hundred decorated bindings from some of Britain's foremost institutions and collectors. A useful but by now somewhat scarce record. Breslauer, The Uses of Bookbinding Literature, pp. 25 & 31. A near fine copy.
Keywords: Illustrated Books, , Books about Books, Book Arts & Collecting, Illustrated Books, Books on Books, Bookbinding, Bookbinders, 2010NYCBKFR,
Price: US$ 950.00 Seller: Kaaterskill Books
- Book number: 35046
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