Author: Fletcher, William Younger.
Title: English bookbindings in the British Museum. Illustrations of 63 examples selected on account of their beauty or historical interest with introduction and descriptions by Fletcher. The plates printed in facsimile by W. Griggs chromolithographer to her Majesty the Queen.
Description: London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, 1895. Large folio (40x30 cm). Original polished blue publisher's cloth (sl. dust-soiled), with gilt title; decorated endpapers; top gilt, uncut. Title printed in red and black, woodcut initials and tail-pieces. xviii pp. introduction, 66 leaves with descriptions of the plates. With 66 tissue-garded beautiful colourplates: chromolithographs, sometimes heightened in gold.- Neatly printed on thick handmade paper in 500 numbered copies. This is copy number 84.

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