Catalogue of books on bookbinding

BOOKS ABOUT BOOKBINDING AND RELATED TRADES

In The Private Collection of Richard Smart 3 Generations of Bookbinders From the early 1900s to the Present Day

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Zeilder 1708 Anweisung Zur Buchbinderkunst Heinsii Erben 1762 Cook The Murderer!....The Leicester Tragedy 1832 Dudin , René Martin 1772, L’art Du Relieur Doreur De Livres.

The Finishers’ Friendly Association 1845 - 1851 Cowie The bookbinders manual 1828 The Books Of The Ancients 1837 Bibliopegia; Or The Art Of Bookbinding 1848 The Art Of Bookbinding, Zeahnsdorf 1880 The Printers' Handbook Of Trade Recipes 1887 A Manual Of The Art Of Bookbinding, Nicholson 1887 Buchbinder Und Futteralmache; Ernst Vol. IV 1751 -1772 Later Edition Дома. Переплетикь Russian Pamphlet, On Bookbinding 1894 Bookbinding Hasluck Paul First Edition 1902 Bookbinding Hasluck Paul Third Edition 1907 Gilt Edging, Marbling And Hand Tooling Pledger John J Notes On Printing And Bookbinding Prideaux S. T. 1921 The Bookbinding Craft & Industry Harrison T. 1926 First Edition The Bookbinding Craft & Industry Harrison T. 1926 First Edition The Bookbinding Craft & Industry Harrison T. 1930 Second Edition Anthropodemic Bibliopegy, Thompson 1945 Bookbinding Self Taught Davidson Ben 1927 Bookbinding And The Care Of Books Cockerell Douglas Bookbinding As A School Subject Stage I, II, III & IV Cockerell Douglas Kniharova Technologie, Czech Book On Bookbinding Technology, Prague 1941.

Dryad Leaflet The Decoration Of Book Edges John Mason A Short History Of Bookbinding J. Zaehnsdorf 1895 Bookbinding Made Easy Klinefelter Lee M. 2 Vols. Bookbinding Its Background And Technique Edith Diehl 1946 Bookbinding Craftsmanship 1925 Unusual Johnnie Walker Scotch Whisky Ad Stimulus Herbert and Peter Fahey, Odds & Ends, 1950.

Herbert and Peter Fahey, Finishing in Hand Bookbinding. 1951 Middleton. A History of English Craft Bookbinding 1963 Signed First Edition Middleton. The Restoration of Leather Bindings. 1972. Signed First Edition Hand Bookbinding A Manual Of Instruction, Aldren A. Watson 1963 The Art Of The Bookbinder and Guilder by M. Dudin 1772 Translated in to English! Macintyre.

Dudin, Rene Martin. Arte Del Legatore E Doratore Di Libri. Milano: Edizioni Il Polifilo, 1964 i. Кружок Переплетного Дела, Н. Н. Мазок Circle Of Bookbinding Russian. 1982 ii. Кружок Переплетного Дела, Н. Н. Мазок Circle Of Bookbinding Russian. 1987 The Whole Art Of Bookbinding 1987 Reprint of the 1811 first edition The Decoration of Leather. Georges de Recy by Maude Nathan. 1905 Appleton’s Home Books, The Home Library Penn Arthur 1884 The American Bookbinder March 1891 – Jan 1893

2 43. The American Bookbinder Vol. III 1892 44. Bookbinding For Bibliophiles, Fletcher Battershall. 1905 45. Bookbinding For Amateurs, Crane W. J. E. 1892

Books Specifically On Marbling 46.

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Marbling, A History And A Bibliography - Easton Phoebe 1983 How To Marbleize Paper Gabriele Grunebaum 1984 Marbling Akers Robert C. 1976 The Practical Guide To Marbling Paper Chambers Anne 1986 The Art Of Marble Paper Einen Miura Published By Zaehndorf Ltd. 1989 A Yorkshire Source Of Decorated Paper Schmoller Tanya 2003

Bookbinding Suppliers 52.

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Edward Seymour And The Fancy Paper Company 2006 Christies Catalogue of bookbinding tools Surplus to Zaensdorf's 1983 Leather Suppliers Russell’s Catalogue 1954 Bookcloth 1823-1980 William Tomlinson & Richard Masters 1996

Bookbinders, Binderies And Their Craft 56.

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Report on the Committee on Leather for Bookbinding 1905 SSZ Bookbinding, A Brochure of there Bookbinding service from 1994 A catalogue of Valuable books in Handsome Bindings, Zaehnsdorf 1900’s The Zaehnsdorfs, Frank Broomhead, 1 of 100 copies bound by “Z” extra gilt. 1986 The Zaehnsdorfs, Frank Broomhead, First Edition un-bound 1986 The Zaehnsdorfs, Frank Broomhead, First Edition Cloth bound Glassine dustjacket 1986 Extracts from the Diary of Roger Payne 1928 Rodger Payne English Bookbinder of the Eighteenth Century, Cyril Davenport. 1929 Practical Wisdom, with a Letter written and signed by Stanley Bray. Sangorski & Sutcliffe Lewisham News Paper Archive About C.E.Smart Bookbinders 1955 Bookbindings by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, Fredrick Adams 1969 Cobden-Sanderson, Closing of the doves Bindery 1969 The Bookbinding Career of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt 1974 Bookbinders of the United Kingdom (outside London) 1780-1840 Ramsden Charles The Birdsall Collection of Finishing Tools 1972 James Scott and William Scott, Bookbinders 1980 An Exhibition at the Houghton Library, Arno Werner. 1981 Hand Bookbinding in California, Book Club of California Keepsake 1994 Pierre Ouvard, University of Alberta, Inscribed by the Author to Richard Smart. 2000

3 75. i. Lost on The Titanic, The Story of the Great Omar, Limited Edition in Silver Cloth binding ii. Lost on the Titanic, The Story of the Great Omar, Limited edition in un-bound sheets. iii. Prospectus and Letters stating delay of printing and binding. 2001 76.

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Recollections a life in Bookbinding, Bernard C. Middleton 2000.

Historical Sketch of Bookbinding Prideaux S.T. 1893.

Historical Sketch of Bookbinding Prideaux S.T. 1893 1 of 120 copies on hand made paper.

The Binding of Books Horne Herbert P. First Edition 1894.

The Binding of Books Horne Herbert P. First Edition 1894 1 of 150 copies on Japonica paper.

Notes of a book lover Mathews 1894 Commercial Bindings.

Notes of a book lover Mathews 1894 Bindings of the Present.

Notes of a book lover Mathews 1894 Bindings of the Past.

A Short History of the Art and Craft of Bookbinding, North James Sharp, Broomhead’s copy.

Bookbinders and Their Craft, Prideaux S. T. limited to 500 copies in Grey Boards and slip case.

Bookbinders and Their Craft, Prideaux S. T. 1903 limited to 500 copies in Grey Boards.

Modern Bookbindings, Prideaux S. T. First US Edition 1906.

Functional Bookbinding, Wakeman and Pollard, Limited to 180 numbered Copies.

The Development of Certain Styles of Bookbinding Nixon Howard 1963.

Five Centuries Of English Bookbinding, Nixon Howard 1978. First Edition Cloth.

Five Centuries Of English Bookbinding, Nixon Howard 1978 one of Fifteen Copies bound by Zaehnsdorf, Copy no. one bound for A.E.F. Davis, Signed by Nixon.

A Short Historical Sketch of the Art of Bookbinding, William Mathews scarce item 1895.

Bookbinding, Harthan John, First Edition, 1950 Bookbinding, Harthan John, Second Edition 1961, inscribed by the author.

National Association for the Advancement of Art. 1889. Lecture by Cobden-Sanderson.

Gold Tooled Bookbindings in the Bodleian Library 1951.

Early Bindings in Paper, Michele Valerie Cloonan, First Edition 1991.

The Earlier Cambridge Stationers & Bookbinders, Gray George J. Frist Edition.

The British Book Trade 1475 – 1890, Two Volumes, Howard Hill T H. 2009.

Notes on Bookbinding, Charles Gerring,1 of 100 copies Signed, 1899.

Modern Bookbinding Practically Considered, William Mathews, 1889, limited edition of 300.

The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding, Szirmai J. A. 1999.

The History of Bookbinding525-1950 A.D. 1957.

The History of the Art of Bookbinding With Some Account of the Ancients. Brassington W. Salt.

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Bindings and their History Listed by Country

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English Bookbindings in the British Museum, Fletcher William Younger, First Edition 1895 Royal English BookBindings; Davenport Cyril 1896, First American Edition.

Royal English BookBindings; Davenport Cyril 1896, First English Edition.

English Embroidered Bookbindings, Davenport Cyril, 1899 First American Edition.

English Embroidered Bookbindings, Davenport Cyril, 1899 First English Edition.

A book Bound for Mary Queen of Scotts, Barwick, 1901 Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.

Early Oxford Bindings, Gibson Strickland 1903 First Edition.

Samuel Mearne, Binder to King Charles, Davenport Cyril, 1906 limited to 252 copies.

Beautiful Cosway Bindings, Currie Miss, (Catalogue Supplement.)

A collection of Armorial Bookbindings, Smith & Benger. 1972.

English Embossed Bookbindings 1825-1850 Jamieson Eleanore, 1972.

Royal English Bookbindings in the British Museum, 1957.

Textile and Embroidered Bindings, Bodleian Library, First Edition, 1971.

English Restoration Bindings, Samuel Mearne, First Edition, 1974.

English Restoration Bindings, Samuel Mearne, Exhibition Catalogue 1974.

British Bookbinding Today, Edger Mansfield, 1976.

The History of decorated bookbinding in England, Mirjam M. Foot. First Edition 1992.

English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800, David Pearson, British Library 2004.

Trade Bookbinding in the British Isles 1660-1800, Stuart Bennett, First Edition, 2004.

English Heraldic Book-Stamps, Davenport Cyril, First Edition 1909.

Victorian BookBindings, Sue Allen, with Microfiche photographs, First Edition 1976.

Annotated Dictionary of Fore-Edge Painting Artists & Binders,Weber Jeff, inscribed, 2010.

Scottish Bindings 127. A History of Scottish Bookbinding 1432 – 1650, Mitchell Williams, First Edition, 1955.

Irish Bindings; 128. Irish Bookbindings 1600-1800, Craig Maurice, First Edition, 1954.

129. Irish Bookbindings Craig Maurice 1976, Number 6 in the Irish Heritage series.

130. Five Hundred Years of the Art of the Book in Ireland, Joseph Mcdonnell 1997.

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French Bindings 131. Cercle De la Libraire. Exposition De Reliures. Rare Frank Broomhead’s Copy.

132. Bookbinding in France, Fletcher William Young. First Edition 1894.

133. Bookbinding in France, Fletcher William Young. First Edition 1894.

134. L’Art Dans La Decoration Des Livres, Uzane Octave Limited Edition 1898.

135. Catalogue De Reliures Du XV au XIX, 1 of 100 Numbered Folio, 1930.

136. La Reliure Moderne Artistique Et Fantaisiste, Uzanne Octave, limited edition 1887.

137. La Reliure Moderne Artistique Et Fantaisiste, Uzanne Octave, limited edition 1887.

138. L’Ancienne France. Louisy M. P. Paris 1886, original wrappers.

139. Les Reliures A La Fanfare. Le Probleme De L’s Ferme. Hobson G. D. Signed Limited Edition from a total of 215 Signed by Hobson, 1935. Very Rare! And Beautiful!

140. Bookbindings form the library of Jean Grolier, Nixon Howard M. First Edition 1965.

Italian Bindings 141. Maioli, Canevari and Others, Monographs on Bookbinding Hobson G. D. 1926.

142. Die Italienschen Renaissance – Einbande Der Bibliothek Furstenberg, De Marinis Tammaro.

143. L’Art Italien De La Reliure Du Livre, XV-XVI Siecle, De Tolodo Vittorio. Milan 1924

Dutch Bindings 144. 4 Vols. Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century, J. Strom Van Leeuen 2006 145. Des Geschiedenis Van Boekband, Loeber JR, J.A. First Edition 1935.

146. Bogbinderen August Sandgren Forening For Boghaandværk, (København), 1952

6 Austrian Bindings 147. Europaische Einbandkunst Aus Mittelalter Und Neuzeit, Mazal Otto, First Edition Folio 1970, from the library of Bookbinding Historian, Frank Broomhead

Turkish Bindings 148. Turkish bookbindings in the 15th Century, Raby and Tanindi, Limited Edition of 1000 copies, 1993.

Russian Bindings 149. Rare USSR Russian set of 16 Postcards on Western European Bookbindings, beautifully presented in a small portfolio with Title page and descriptions in Russian 1977.

150. Russian Illuminated Manuscript, Olga Popova, 1994.

151. Knizhnyi Pereplet, Vladimir Anisimov, Very Rare Russian item Bookbindings of the Soviet era, 1921.

152. The Aroma of Bookbinding, Mihail Seslavinskiy, First and Second revised Editions 2008 & 2011.

German Bindings 153. Die Kunst Im Deutschen Reich, German art Magazine 1942 Hitler Bookbinding Honor Edition.

American Bindings 154. American Bindings un the Library of Henry William Poor, Du Bois Henri Pene, 1903.

155. Early American Book-bindings Michael Papantonio, 1972.

156. Four Private Libraries of New York; Du Bois Henri Pene, 1892.

7 Catalogues and Collections 157. Catalogue Des Manuscrits Et Livres Precieux; Sourget, Patrick & Elisabeth. 10 catalogues from Vol XX – XXIX. 158. Courtland F. Bishop Library; 4 Vols. In stiff wrappers. 1938 – 1939.

159. The Book Collector; Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. 1966. First Edition.

160. The Book Collectors Quarterly XIII 1934. First Edition Publishers Wrappers.

161. Books and Manuscripts in Early Modern Britain (1530 – 1680) Maggs Bros Catalogue 1272.

162. Books and Readers in Early Modern Britain (1510 – 1815) Maggs Bros Catalogue 1293.

163. The Library of William Foyle, Three Parts, Christies Catalogue London 2000.

164. Antiquarian Books; Companion for Booksellers, Librarians and Collectors. First Edition 1994.

165. Among the Gently Mad Nicholas A. Basbanes, Signed by the Author at California book fair.

166. The Great Book-Collectors Charles and Mary Elton, First Edition 1893.

167. The Wormsley Library, Sir Paul Getty published by Maggs Brothers, 1999.

168. Appart from the Text; Anthony Rota, 1998 First edition cloth, paper dust jacket, Signed.

169. Appart from the Text; Anthony Rota, 1998 First edition Half Leather, Signed.

Printing and Design 170. Illustrirte Geschichte Der Buchdruckerkunst Mit Besonderer Berucksichtigung Ihrer Technischen Entwicklung Bis Zur Gegenwart. Faulmann Karl, First Edition 1882.

171. The Art of the Book and it’s Illustration; Poortenaar, Jan. 1935 First U.K. Edition.

172. The Art of the Book and it’s Illustration; Poortenaar, Jan. 1935 First U.S. Edition.

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The Literature Of Bookbinding; Hobson A. R. A. 1954.

Studies In The Book Trade; Pollard Graham, Nixon Howard M. 1975.

Bookbinding, Including Books From The Libraries ... Nixon And Mclean. 1984.

Early Bookbinding Manuals; Pollard Graham 1984.

The Uses Of Bookbinding Literature; Breslauer Bernard 1986.

The Binders Art; Bernard C. Middleton Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection, Rochester, 1989.

Highlights From The Bernard C. Middleton Collection; Bernard C. Middleton 2000.

Bookbindings & Other Bibliophily Rhodes, Dennis E. Verona, 1994.

8 1. ZEIDLER, JOHANN GOTTFRIED. BUCHBINDER PHILOSOPHIE Buchbinder Philosophie oder Einleitung in die Buchbinder Kunst, darinnen die selbe aus dem Buch de Natur und eigener Erfahrung Philosophisch abgehandelt wird, mit sonderbahren Anmerckungen Zweyer Wohlerfahner Buchbinder und jugehorigen Kupffern. Hall im Magdeburgschen: Zufinden in Rengerischer Buchandlung, 1708.

First edition of a rare and notable book; this is the first printed technical annual on bookbinding.

It includes the first illustration of a typeholder for lettering. Other engraved plates show a screwpress, sewing frame, and finishing tools. In addition, there are 16 wood-cut illustrations within the text, which include the imposition of sheets.

Pollard and Potter 16. Middleton, Highlights, no. 1; in regard to the typeholder he states that “it was not used in England, I believe, before about 1780.”

8vo, cont. calf, neatly re-hinged. (xii)+190; 56+(10) pp with engraved frontice piece and 4 engraved plates.

Title printed in red and black. Lightly and uniformly browned as usual due to the paper quality.

Middleton, The Binder’s Art, no. 1. Mejer 2061. OCLC locates only four copies in American libraries: Grolier, Morgan, NYPL and RIT. Provenance: Graham Pollard & Esther Potter

9 2. ANWEISUNG ZUR BUCHBINDERKUNST HEINSII ERBEN 1762

Anweisung zur Buchbinderkunst: darinnen alle Handarbeiten, die zur Dauer und Zierde eines Buches gereichen, mรถglichst beschrieben; nebst einem Unterricht Futterale und aus Pappe verschiedene Sachen zu verfertigen, solche zu lacquiren, in Messing und Kupfer zu lรถthen, die verfertigte Arbeit in Feuer zu versilbern und zu vergolden, mit gehรถrigen Kupfern, in zwey Theile verfasset Erste Abtheilung. Leipzig: Joh. Sam. Heinsii Erben,1762.

First edition, 2 parts in one, [16], 269; [3], 128, [xvi, index]pp., engraved vignette to title-page, 7 engraved plates, some occasional browning, cont. old blue paper wrappers, matching overlay spine. Provenance: The library of Graham Pollard and Esther Potter. The engraved vignette on the title-page illustrates a sewing frame; other plates illustrate a screw press, a type

10 3. COOK, THE MURDERER, OR THE LEICESTER TRAGEDY Being a Full and Faithful Account of the Horrible Assassination of Mr. John Pass, of London, on the 30th of May, 1832, Perpetrated by James Cook, of Leicester; with An authentic detail of the cruel means adopted by the murderer to accomplish the Bloody Deed, And of the inhuman Method which he used to dispose of the Body of his Murdered Victim; To which is added, the Singular Manner in which the Melancholy Fate of the Deceased Gentleman was discovered; The

Flight of the Culprit, his Subsequent Apprehension at Liverpool, and his Confession of the Barbarous Fact, with his Trial, Conviction, Sentence, and Execution.

Author: WILLIAMS (C.J.) Publisher: Derby: Published by Thomas Richardson. c.

The rare account of the murder and trail which, due to Cook's spectacular method of disposing of the body, caused a sensation in the placid life of Leicester. This was further enhanced by a public execution with the body hanging in chains for three days, thousands came to attend.

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James Cook was born at Anstey, a village outside Leicester, in 1811. Such education as he received was at the Sunday school there. The family later moved to Leicester where Cook was apprenticed to Samuel John, a bookbinder. Johnson died when Cook was about twenty one, and he was said have inherited the business. He bought some tools from John Paas, which were delivered in September, 1831 and it was payment for these that the latter called to collect in 1832. Cook later gave two accounts of what happened at the interview. The likelier one seems to be that he had decided to kill Pass for the money he would have on him from collecting accounts. Cook paid Paas his account and while he was writing the receipt (or possibly when he was examining some books afterwards) hit him on the back of the head with an iron press pin. He failed to kill him, and Paas grabbed up a hammer from the bench to defend himself, but was too weakened to do more than stagger to the door shouting 'Murder!' while Cook finished him off with further blows. Then he went out to the Flying Horse Inn, next door, and had a glass of brandy.

No doubt he needed it. At ten o'clock he returned to the binding shop and proceeded to dismember the body and burn it. The fire blazed up to such an extent that the wife of the landlord of the Flying Horse thought Cook's chimney was on fire. She alerted her husband, and they and some others rushed up the stairs and burst open the door. They removed the flesh, put out the fire and sent for a Constable. Docker, John Paas & James Cook, First edition, 24pp., folding hand-coloured frontispiece depicting 5 scenes from the case (Cook the Murderer, Burning the Body, The Discovery, Cook Apprehended & The Confession), orig. printed wrappers, new spine.

12 4. DUDIN (RENÉ MARTIN) L’ART DU RELIEUR DOREUR DE LIVRES. [Paris: De l’Imprimerie L. F. Delatour],1772.

First Edition of one of the earliest and most comprehensive descriptions of bookbinding practice and one of the two major bookbinding texts of the eighteenth century in any language. Plans for a scientific description of all the manufacturing process were

formulated by the Académie Royale de de Sciences in the 1690s. In 1705 Jacques Jurgeon submitted a manuscript report on the book arts, which contained fifty pages on binding. Thereafter, a number of plates were commissioned by the Academy, some of which formed the basis of articles in Diderot’s Encyclopédie in the 1750’s. The article on binding in that work left much still to be said, so Dudin rewrote it for the Academy’s revived 1772 edition. Dudin, who was not a binder himself, apparently went to painstaking lengths to describe each part of the processes.

He depended largely on the experience of a leading Paris bookbinder, Jean Charles Henri le Monnier, who arranged for the whole sequence of operations to be demonstrated to him.

[Paris: De l’Imprimerie L. F. Delatour] ,1772. Folio, sectional-title leaf, 112pp., from the library of Graham Pollard, signed in pencil with his printed book label, 16 full-page engraved plates (some light marginal staining), cont. calf-backed boards, spine worn, marbled paper boards, rubbed and corners worn. Pollard & Potter 45.

13 5. RARE & EARLY INSIGHT INTO THE LONDON BOOKBINDERS’ UNIONS AND THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE TRADE IN LONDON FINISHERS’ FRIENDLY ASSOCIATION. The bookfinishers’ friendly circular, conducted by a committee of the Finishers’ Friendly Association. London: Printed by the Working Printers’ Association, 1845-51 A rare little work, of much value for the light it shines on the London bookbinders’ unions, from their development in the late 18th century, chronicling the strikes and internal strife of the binders unions as well as printing articles on the practical side of bookbinding. John Jaffray (1811-69) was the main editor of the Circular and it is believed he wrote much of it.

Jaffray’s fascination with the early bookbinders’ unions led him to write to and obtain information from Mr. Hall who came to London in 1781 as a Journeyman Bookbinder. He belonged to the Society of Journeymen Bookbinders and helped organize the strike of 1786. His letters and those of William Faulkner who campaigned for the reduction of one hour in 1794, form the basis of the Notices of the early history of the Journeymen Bookbinders’ Trade Society (all present here). In many cases the Circular provides the only printed record of events. No original copy of the Notices survives and the text in the Circular is the only source.

Also present in this copy is the Rules &c of the Finishers’ Friendly Association which was founded in 1844 (it is pages 1-8). Finally, at the end of this copy are “Illustrations of the styles of Finishing by the Finisher’s Friendly Association”

(16 pp., illus). Middleton (RIT) catalogue 21. OCLC locates 6 copies in America: Columbia, UGa, UKs, Newberry, Grolier, RIT. Provenance: Graham Pollard & Esther Potter.

12mo, orig. pebble grain cloth, title in gilt on spine. (8)+iv+166+(ii)+1- 14 with 9 illus in the final part. Text contains parts I-XIX as called for. Excellent copy.

14 6. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION COWIE, THE BOOKBINDERS MANUAL [COWIE (George)] The Bookbinder’s Manual: Containing a Full Description of Leather and Vellum Binding; Also, Directions for Gilding of Paper and BookEdges: and Numerous Valuable Recipes for Sprinkling, Colouring, & Marbling; Together with a Scale of Bookbinders' Charges; a List of All the Book and Vellum Binders in London: London: Cowie and Strange, [1828 First edition, 18mo, vi, [7]-124, [2, index]pp., late nineteenth-century pebbled cloth.

The extremely rare first edition of this bookbinder’s manual which is usually attributed to the printer George Cowie who printed it, but was no doubt written by a practising bookbinder. It ran to seven editions with the last being published in 1852. In addition to the list of binders, there are lists of others connected with the craft, such as tool-makers, clasp-makers, edge-gilders, and manufacturers and dealers in milled boards. There are interesting tables which include much detailed information about the dimensions of millboards, their weight, etc. and applicability to various bindings. The prices for various styles of bindings are given, among much else.

(Highlights from the Bernard C. Middleton Collection). Copac locating a single copy of the first edition at the British Library; Pollard & Potter 98; Highlights from the Bernard C. Middleton Collection of Books on Bookbinding,

7. THE BOOKS OF THE ANCIENTS &c.

AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND FORM OF THE BOOK OF THE ANCIENTS WITH A HISTORY OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING An Inquiry Into The Nature And Form Of The Book Of The Ancients With A History Of The Art Of Bookbinding Arnett John, Publisher: Richard Groombridge 1837 1st Ed. Sm. 8vo. iv + 212pp. 13 plates, 1 blind embossed plate. original gilt lettered blind embossed cloth, spine label partially missing. Extremely clean tidy and complete copy of this rare book. 1837 First Edition

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8. BIBLIOPEGIA; OR THE ART OF BOOKBINDING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES; HANETT, JOHN BIBLIOPEGIA; OR THE ART OF BOOKBINDING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. 1848. HANNETT, John. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1848.

12mo. Bound in full tree Sheep. 166 pages. Fourth edition. This edition was the first to be published under the author's true name, not John Andrews Arnett; the book was also printed by him. The present work incorporated The Bookbinders' School of Design, which was first published separately in 1837.

Pollard & Potter provide valuable notes to all the editions of this in Early Bookbinding Manuals (no.100). Middleton's The Binder's Art, no. 24, describes the first edition of The Bookbinder's School of Design. The frontispiece is a portrait of Roger Payne. There ten plates numbered.

9. THE FIRST EDITION OF ZAEHNSDORF'S CLASSIC MANUAL ON BINDING TECHNIQUE. THE ART OF BOOKBINDING London: George Bell & Sons Publication Date: 1880.

Two Copies in the Collection, 1st edition 8vo, (212x145mm) xxvi,187p. 10 photolithograph plates & 51 wood engravings in the text. Original purple sand-grain cloth, lettered in gilt. The first edition of Zhaehnsdorf’s classic manual on binding technique. Originally written for the growing band of late-Victorian amateur bookbinders this text enjoyed a considerable sale among professional trade binders, so much so that their needs were recognized in the second edition of 1890, which contained additional material on trade practices.

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10. THE PRINTERS' HANDBOOK OF TRADE RECIPES, HINTS, AND SUGGESTIONS RELATING TO LETTERPRESS AND LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING, BOOKBINDING, STATIONERY, ENGRAVING, ETC. Chiswick Press, London, 1887 First Edition. Hardback. Blue Original Cloth Gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo. pp vi, 197 [3pp ads] a clean vg copy of the uncommon first.

11. A MANUAL OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING Nicholson, James B.Henry Carey Baird & Co, Philadelphia, 1887.

Hardcover Book 3rd Edition. Green Cloth. Fair condition, Containing Full Instructions In The Different Branches Of Forwarding, Gilding, and Finishing. Also, The Art Of Marbling Book-Edges and paper. The Whole Designed For The Practical Workman, The Amateur, And The Book-Collector 1st Edition was 1856 and was the first binding manual for the trade in America.

12. BUCHBINDER UND FUTTERALMACHE; ERNST: FOURTH VOLUME OF LATER EDITION 1751 -1772 Anspach, zu finden in der Poschischen Hofbuchhandlung 1772. 8vo. With portrait on frontispiece and with 14 foldout engravings (present are 1-5, 712, 15, 17, 18). (18)+250+(12) pages. Bound in a later half vellum binding with black titlelabel on the spine. All edges are red. Slightly stained inside, a few of the engravings with minor closed tears, but otherwise a nicely preserved copy. *

On the art of bookbinding as well as decorating bindings.. Fourth Volume of later edition 1751 -1772

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13. A WONDERFUL AND RARE DISCOVERY OF THIS AMAZING LITTLE RUSSIAN PAMPHLET SOLEY ON BOOKBINDING ДОМА. ПЕРЕПЛЕТИКЬ Russian Bookbinding pamphlet dated 1894.

During this period books on bookbinding were only just coming into there own, and Russia had quite a German influence, not only in its early language but in Bookbinding, any research on early Russian bindings show a distinct similarity to German bindings, especially in the materials used. So to find a delicate little pamphlet dated 1894 is incredible and all in Russian with diagrams on the tools and process of bookbinding.

No Known Copies, of this very early book on bookbinding. Small pamphlet in 1/2 Blue Morocco Slander box.

18 14. BOOKBINDING HASLUCK PAUL FIRST EDITION 1902 Bookbinding Hasluck Paul Cassell and Company, London, 1902. Green Cloth with red title on the front cover, 160 pages plus advertisements, with black and white diagrams throughout. nice clean copy

15. BOOKBINDING HASLUCK PAUL THIRD EDITION 1907 Bookbinding Hasluck Paul Third Edition 1907 Cassell and Company, London, Green Cloth with red title and images of a bookbinder on the front cover, 160 pages plus advertisements, with black and white diagrams throughout. nice clean copy.

16. GILT EDGING, MARBLING AND HAND TOOLING PLEDGER JOHN J Gilt Edging, Marbling And Hand Tooling Pledger John J. The Inland Printer Company, First Edition.. Loss of paper from heavy rubbing along edges of boards.; 90 pages + plates.

Quarter cloth and papered boards. Page dimensions: 217 x 145mm. Two of the plates are in colour, showing marbling patterns to page edges. The remaining plates are in b&w

17. NOTES ON PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING PRIDEAUX S. T. 1921. Paperback. Prideaux, S.T. Notes On Printing And Bookbinding. London: Victoria and Albert Museum. 8vo. Wrappers. Frontispiece, 40 pages, 16 plates. First edition. Being "a guide to the exhibition of tools and materials used in the processes. A very good copy of a scarce title. housed in 1/2 Calf Clamshell box Full Gilt Spine

18. FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE BOOKBINDING HISTORIAN, FRANK BROOMHEAD. THE BOOKBINDING CRAFT & INDUSTRY HARRISON T. 1926 FIRST EDITION Harrison T. The Bookbinding Craft & Industry. England: Isaac Pitman, 1926. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. FullLeather. Signed by Author. Very Good The Bookbinding Craft and Industry. An Outline of its History, Development, and Technique. 128pp., inscribed by the author and presented to Ernest Ingham of the Fanfare Press, frontice. Numerous illustrations., Tony Appleton’s invoice tipped-in, a fine copy in full brown morocco by the author, signed “Wood” on turn-in (for whom Harrison worked), single fillet border, five raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, morocco-backed folding case.

From the library of the bookbinding historian, Frank Broomhead.

19 19. FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE BOOKBINDING HISTORIAN, FRANK BROOMHEAD. THE BOOKBINDING CRAFT & INDUSTRY HARRISON T. 1926 FIRST EDITION Harrison T. The Bookbinding Craft & Industry. England: Isaac Pitman, 1926. First Edition. 24mo - over 5" - 5他" tall. Decorative Cloth. Good / Poor. The Bookbinding Craft and Industry. An Outline of its History, Development, and Technique. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., [1826]. First Edition, x,128pp., signed and dated by Broomhead, frontice., numerous illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. a little torn. From the library of the bookbinding historian, Frank Broomhead

20. THE BOOKBINDING CRAFT & INDUSTRY HARRISON T. 1930 SECOND EDITION Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd, London, second edition, 1930. Full Morocco 8vo, x, 139, [5] pp, 32 pp publisher's catalogue, ills. With drawings to illustrate the explanations of processes as well as photographs of machinery, etc. Contents: I. The Evolution of the Book; II. Folding; III. Gathering, Collating, and Pulling; IV. Preparation of Miscellaneous Work; V. Dry-Cleaning, Washing. and Mending; VI. Sewing; VII. End Papers; VIII. Forwarding; IX. Forwarding : Cutting and Edge Decoration.; X. Covering; XI. Finishing: (I) Its Historical Development; XII. Finishing: (II) Book Decoration; Appendix: Fire Hazards of Printing and Bookbinding Works, by Robert Taylor.

Name and inscription on paste down signed by Harrison Bound in Full Morocco by John Smart, Given as a gift to Jenny Sawyer daughter of Chaz Sawyer, Then given to Richard Smart as a gift by Jenny Sawyer November 2014

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21. One Of A kind!! Only study known on this subject to this depth‌.

ANTHROPODERMIC BIBLIOPEGY, THOMPSON This Item is facitnating, 1945 (end of the second world war) this 33 page dissertation written by Lawrence S. Thompson. San Juan de Puerto Rico. Included is 2 letters typed from R. R. Donnelley & sons Company, Extra Binding Dept. Lakeside Press. And a hand written letter from Mr. Thompson, to H. W. Tribolet, of R. R. Donnelley. Augast 1945.

The dissertation that was used for a lecture in the university of Puerto Rico, along with magazine cuttings added at a later date of 1954 on items and books bound in Human Skin! The whole thing is very detailed research and findings on bindings and items made from Human Skin. We now know for sure that this was practiced by the Nazis especially Hitler’s wife who often had Lampshades made from tanned human skin, this has shed light on many more bindings and items of the time.

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22. BOOKBINDING SELF TAUGHT DAVIDSON BEN Girard, kansas. Haldeman Julius pub. 1927. Little blue book No.1192, 1927. Soft cover. Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. soft cover.12mo.32 pages. This little pamphlet shows very simple methods of each process of making simple bookbinding’s.

23. BOOKBINDING AND THE CARE OF BOOKS COCKERELL DOUGLAS Cockerell. Bookbinding and the Care of Books. London: Isaac Pitman, - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hard Cover. London: 1901 1st ed. 8vo, 5¾" - 6¾" 342p +8p trade and publisher's adverts, 8 plates and 120 text illustrations. Original quarter linen, green paper covered sides faded at the edges.

24. BOOKBINDING AS A SCHOOL SUBJECT STAGE I, II, III & IV COCKERELL DOUGLAS Cockerell Douglas. Bookbinding as a School Subject. England: G. W. Russell and Son Ltd, 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Soft Cover.

Stage I Binding books of one section Stage II Binding books of more than one section in cloth Stage III Cutting Edges and binding in Half or Full leather Stage IV Lettering and tooling

Czech book on bookbinding technology, Prague 1941.

25. KNIHAROVA TECHNOLOGIE

Ludvik Bradac, Kniharova Technologie, the text covers papers used for bookbinding 4 pages at the rear with tipped in samples of papers for bookbinding.26.

26. DRYAD LEAFLET THE DECORATION OF BOOK EDGES JOHN MASON Dryad Handicrafts, Leicester, no date. Stapled wrappers, 14x21.5cm, 12pp. Good condition.

General light wear and marks. Bookseller's stamp on front cover.

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27. ONE OF MY FAVOURITES A SHORT HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING J. ZAEHNSDORF A Short History Of Bookbinding; J. Zaehnsdorf, London, first edition, 1895 Original printed wrappers, small 4to, 20 cm.

37, [2] pp, colour frontispiece, 19 ills. The content is largely drawn from the author's Art of bookbinding, 1880. The pamphlet includes a description and advertisement of the Zaehnsdorf’s shop "Cambridge Works": pp [29]-37

28. BOOKBINDING MADE EASY KLINEFELTER LEE M. Bookbinding Made Easy, Klinefelter Lee M. 1947 6th Edition, Recommended for all those who with to learn the craft of bookbinding. Contents Include: Equipment; Book Material; Auxiliary Materials; Preparing and Sewing; Forwarding; Repairing Books; Binding Single Sheets; Finishing; Glossary. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.

29. EDITH DIEHL (1876-1953) A BOOKBINDER OF HER TIME. BOOKBINDING ITS BACKGROUND AND TECHNIQUE Bookbinding Its Background And Technique Edith Diehl 1946 First edition. 2 volumes. New York-Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc. 1946 Black buckram with gilt decoration and titling to the spines; Black paper covered slipcase. 8vo.

251,91/406 pages Fine/Very good. Edith Diehl (1876-1953) was the top American woman bookbinder of her time. Here she teaches about the history of bookbinding from primitive forms through modern binding processes, including international styles of book decorations in Volume I. Volume II is dedicated to the Craftsmanship, from equipment, end papers, forwarding, sewing, materials and finishing. The set is very clean, bright and sound without edge wear; the slipcase is covered in black paper with a paper label pasted down to the spine.

23 30. BOOKBINDING CRAFTSMANSHIP 1925 UNUSUAL JOHNNIE WALKER SCOTCH WHISKY AD STIMULUS This is Great! workers in the finishing department of some of the greatest binderies have always said that if you take a swig of whisky and breath on the gold it will help the gold to stick. It’s a wonderful old wives tale, Whiskey or not, breathing on the gold just before applying the tool ads just enough dampness to revive the glair helping it stick and look bright.

However A finisher will argue the point for ever, a lot of them were good drinkers of whisky and will never stop swigging Whisky and doing there work. Me included!

31. ODDS AND ENDS HERBERT AND PETER FAHEY Herbert and Peter Fahey, Odds & Ends, 1950.

A great rare item containing lots of information on funny, useful, and all together interesting and amusing parts of the Printing and Bookbinding world.

Limited. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Soft Cover. Good Signature on ffep of Margret Lecky a Highly regarded designer bookbinder

32. FINISHING IN HAND BOOKBINDING HERBERT AND PETER FAHEY Fahey Herbert and Peter. Finishing in Hand Bookbinding. 1951 San Francisco: Herbert and Peter Fahey, 1951. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good Written published and printed by Herbert and Peter Fahey, $175.00 San Francisco. First Edition., 1951. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition.

Brown cloth decorated gold, 6 1/8 X 9 1/2 inches, 82 pages.

24 33. A HISTORY OF ENGLISH CRAFT BOOKBINDING MIDDLETON Middleton. A History of English Craft Bookbinding 1963 Signed First Edition New York/ London, Hafner Publishing Company, First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth.

Signed by Author. 307 pages followed by 11 plates. Foreword by Howard M. Nixon. First edition. 11 full page plates including a full color frontispiece showing 12 different kinds of decorated papers. An excellent book of technique. Jacket age yellowed and toned

34. THE RESTORATION OF LEATHER BINDINGS. MIDDLETON Middleton. The Restoration of Leather Bindings. 1972. Signed First Edition American Library Association, Chicago, IL, Soft cover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket.

1st Edition. 4to – over 9¾ - 12” tall. Library Technical Program Publication 18. With 93 drawings

by Aldren A. Watson. Bound in stiff pictorial wrappers. A text that should appeal to both institutional collections with rare books holdings as well as an introduction for the aspiring amateur bookbinder.

35. HAND BOOKBINDING A MANUAL OF INSTRUCTOIN ALDREN A. WATSON Bookbinding, a Manual of Instruction. ...Publisher: New York, Bell Publishing Company, Inc. 1963 Edition: 1st Edition.

Impressively illustrated guide. Description: 93 p. Illus. 27 cm. Subjects: Bookbinding -Handbooks, manuals, etc. Handicraft --Handbooks, manuals, etc. Very good copy, in a very good slightly dust-dulled Dust Jacket. Remains particularly and surprisingly wellpreserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered.

36. THE ART OF THE BOOKBINDER AND GUILDER DUDIN (René Martin) Dudin, René Martin The Art Of The Bookbinder and Guilder by M. Dudin 1772 Translated into English by Richard Macintyre Atkinson. Folio xiv, 128, (2)pp Illustrated with 16 Plates each with a facing page of Descriptions, Text decoration Printed in Green.

Edition limited to 490 Copies Gilt Decorated Green Calf over Linen Fine Copy

25 37. ARTE DEL LEGATORE E DORATORE DI LIBRI [.] CON L'AG...

DUDIN, (RenĂŠ Martin) DUDIN, Rene Martin. ARTE DEL LEGATORE E DORATORE DI LIBRI. Milano: Edizioni il Polifilo, 1964.

Folio. Wrappers over flexible boards, slipcase.

116 pages, 16 plates. This is a reproduction of Dudin's early bookbinding manual, first published in 1772, with a valuable introduction and notes by Jean Toulet. It is a part of the Documenti Sulle A del Libro series. It is handsomely printed with excellent plates.

26 38. КРУЖОК ПЕРЕПЛЕТНОГО ДЕЛА Н. Н. МАЗОК Circle of bookbinding Author: Nicholas Pap Publisher: Education Year: 1982 Russi an As you know, the books, especially those that are often used, are subject to wear. In connection with the issuance of free school textbooks problem of preserving and extending the shelf life of the book becomes very important. One way to solve it is the communion of the children to the basics of bookbinding in circles organized in schools, houses of pioneers, pioneer camps, libraries, etc. Offered book is a handbook for managers circles bookbinding, working in schools and in extracurricular institutions.

2 Editions of this Russian School book for bookbinding as a school subject.

1982, copy in red paper Cover, with detailed instructions on bookmaking, housed in a ¼ red Clamshell Box. 1987 copy in Brown paper cover, with detailed instructions on bookmaking.

39. PREFACE BY MIDDLETON THE WHOLE ART OF BOOKBINDING - THE WHOLE PROCESS OF MARBLING PAPER The Whole Art Of Bookbinding 1987 Reprint of the 1811 first edition.

W. Thomas Taylor, Austin, 1987. cloth-backed boards. Marbling (illustrator). 8vo. cloth-backed boards. x, 89, (3) pages. Reprinted from the original editions, with a foreword by Bernard Middleton and twelve specimens of marbled paper and notes by Richard J. Wolfe. See S-K 7258 for the 1811 first edition of the first title. Limited to 500 copies. Reprints of these two very scarce early 19th century English manuals enhanced by a Middleton introduction and 12 actual marbled paper specimens tipped-in that were executed specially for this book.

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40. THE DECORATION OF LEATHER MAUDE NATHAN The Decoration of Leather. Georges de Recy by Maude Nathan. . London: Archibald Constable & Co, 1905.

First Edition. 12mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Decorative Cloth. Good Archibald Constable & Co., London, 1905. From the French of Georges de Recy by Maude Nathan. With Illustrations and Examples of Leather Decoration from Various Sources. First English edition. A history of the decoration of leather with 34 illustrations in the text and 20 full page plates showing bookbinding’s, furniture, paintings, and other forms of decoration.

41. APPLETONS HOME BOOKS, THE HOME LIBRARY PENN ARTHUR D. Appleton and Co., New York, 1884. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. 5 x 8 in. 121 pp. plus adverts. Brown pictorial cloth boards. B&W plates. Condition is covers very clean, Binding tight and text unmarked.

42. THE AMERICAN BOOKBINDER United Bookbinders of North America, March 1891 – Jan 1893 12 issues of this bi-monthly journal, Bound togeather in blue cloth, the pictorial wrapper of one of the issues is bound in at the front.

Occasional engravings and drawings appear in the text and advertisements, this periodical was continued only until April 1896 runs of any length are Scarce.

43. THE AMERICAN BOOKBINDER United Bookbinders of North America Vol. III. May 1892.

A chapter on Cutting Tools in this issue…..

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44. BOOKBINDING FOR BIBLIOPHILES BEING NOTES ON SOME TECHNICAL FEATURES OF THE WELL BOUND BOOK FOR THE AID OF CONNOISSEURS TOGETHER WITH A SKETCH OF GOLD TOOLING ANCIENT AND MODERN BATTERSHALL, FLETCHER

Published by The Literary Collector Press, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1905 (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches). Title in red and black, half-title. Photogravure frontispiece. Original grey paper-covered boards, paper labels ruled in red and lettered in black on upper cover and back strip (slight discolouration of back strip, small splits to joints) First edition, limited to 350 copies, this number 237 of 300 copies on Enfield plate paper. The book is intended for 'those who love the book as a physical being, as an objet d'art, apart from the literary value of the thought expressed' (introduction).

45. BOOKBINDING FOR AMATEURS, CRANE W. J. E. London: L. Upcott Gill. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. n.d. [1892]. 12mo. [8], 184, [16] pp.

Illustrated with 156 engravings. In the publisher's green ripple-grain cloth blind-, ink-, and giltstamped. In very fresh and bright condition, corners slightly bumped. A fascinating snapshot of the trade, packed full of useful information and diagrams. In fine condition throughout.

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46. MARBLING, A HISTORY AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY EASTON PHOEBE Easton Phoebe. Marbling, a History and a Bibliography.. Los Angeles: Dawson's Bookshop,, 1983.

Numbered. 8vo - over 7他" - 9他" tall. Cloth. Good Book Description: Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, first edition, 1983., 1983. Limited edition of 850 copies. this is # 576 Original linen boards, with front cover having an inlaid sample of marbled paper (as issued), 4to, xiii, 190 pp, with 7 further tipped-in marbled paper specimens and 10 pp plates. Beautifully produced and illustrated, with 7 pages of colour plates showing 45 examples of marbling and 3 pages of b/w plates. A fascinating survey of the history of marbling is followed by a very useful bibliography, occupying pages 145 -179, which is catholic in scope, including the history and techniques of marbling and various applications of the techniques.

47. HOW TO MARBLEIZE PAPER GABRIELE GRUNEBAUM How To Marbleize Paper Gabriele Grunebaum Dover Publications, New York, 1984. Soft cover.

Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket No Jacket as Issued. First Edition/First Printing., New York, 1984. Softcover. Book near new.

Step by step instructions for 12 traditional patterns. Colour endpapers, B+W illustrations. The instructions are accompanied with 36 b&w photos.

48. MARBLING AKERS ROBERT C. Dryad Leaflet, first edition, 1976. Introduction and process of marbling.

49. THE PRACTICAL GUIDE TO MARBLING PAPER CHAMBERS ANNE 1st edition. Thames and Hudson,, New York:, 1986. Color pictorial wrappers. 8vo.

10" x 7".. 88 pp. Illustrated with "how to" drawings and color photographs.

50. THE ART OF MARBLE PAPER EINEN MIURA Published By Zaehndorf Ltd. The Art Of Marble Paper: Marbled Patterns And How To Make Them; Einen MiuraBook 1989. Book Condition: Good. With Dust Jacket.

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51. A YORKSHIRE SOURCE OF DECORATED PAPER IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. SCHMOLLER TANYA Decorated Paper In The Eighteenth Century.

Sheffield, 2003; A Soft cover 4to, (280x185mm), 28p. 2 samples of paste paper made by Victoria Hall in facsimile of 18th century Herrnhut paper, 6 colour & 9 monochrome illustrations. A very good copy in original jacketed wrappers. (NEW BOOK). An account of the decorated paste paper productions of the Moravian sisters who settled at Fulneck, near Pudsey in Yorkshire in the 18th century. Quite apart from the fascinating account Tanya Schmoller has woven, the booklet is particularly useful to the book trade historian, as the contents include details of the provincial tradesmen, mainly in the book trades and located in the north and midlands, to whom the sisters supplied decorated papers.

BOOKBINDINERS & books on Binderies, There Trade & suppliers

52. EDWARD SEYMOUR AND THE FANCY PAPER COMPANY: THE STORY OF A BRITISH MARBLED PAPER MANUFACTURER BERGER, SIDNEY E. Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, Delaware, 2006. Seymour, Edward (illustrator). 6 x 9 inches. hardcover, quarter leather binding w/ slipcase. 104 pages. This book, limited to an edition of 300 copies, tells the story of Edward Seymour and his firm, The Fancy Paper Company. This British company manufactured marbled and other decorated (fancy) papers for the bookbinding and related industries from about 1919 to 1971. With eighteen illustrations

31 showing their methods and copies of correspondence, and twenty tipped-in, original examples of their many fancy papers, this work is a well-researched text about one of the last English marbled paper manufacturing firms. Dr. Berger shares with his readers the vicissitudes of the company's fortunes, the personal lives of its owners, and the often touching correspondence he found among its business records. The author also informs us of the salaries, costs of doing business, and the unique demands of bookbinders for the company's products. The work ends with Edward Seymour's valiant efforts to keep the company afloat in the early 1970s. This edition is published in the best tradition of the fine press book. It was typeset in hot metal, hand printed on 120 gsm, archival paper, and bound in quarter leather with slipcase by the Manoutios Press of Athens, Greece.

53. BOOKBINDING TOOLS SURPLUS TO ZAENSDORF’S LTD, 1983 Christies Catalogue of bookbinding tools Surplus to the requirements of Zhaehnsdorf’s

54. LEATHER SUPPLIERS; RUSSELS CATALOUE 1954 Russell's Catalogue of bookbinding Supplies and equipment from 1954 a very comprehensive list of everything needed for bookbinding.

55. BOOKCLOTH 1823-1980 WILLIAM TOMLINSON & RICHARD MASTERS Dorothy Tomlinson Stockton, 1996. Large 8vo, xvi,144,[24]pp., with 19 illustrations and 66 samples of bookcloth, orig. cloth, slip-case, t.e.g. The first and arguably the only comprehensive study of the science and history of manufacturing bookcloth. Offers "a study of early use and the rise of manufacture/ Winterbottom's dominance of the trade in Britain and America/ production methods and costs/ and the identification of qualities and designs" (subtitle).

Focuses on the development and use of starch-filled bookcloth in particular, from building factories to the formation of the Winterbottom Book Cloth Company in 1891, which dominated the industry for almost a century. Examines the process of producing the various types of

32 bookcloths in the Victoria Mills in Weaste, Salford, enhanced by illustrations of the production machinery such as starch mangles, drying cylinders and spreaders. Lists prices and costs of production. Minutely describes fifty individual qualities of cloth with details of who made them and when they were available. The real treasure of this book is the section at the end containing 36 tipped-in samples of the qualities and 30 examples of designs, which bring the processes and treatments described in the text to life in a way that words alone simply cannot. This volume compels the reader to be "aware of all the processes that cloth goes through, and the potential hazards involved in manufacturing a consistent product in a range of scores of thousands of 'effects' (grains, colours and combinations thereof). with new eyes and more respect for the people who made them" (Bernard Middleton's Foreword, viii). Includes bibliography and extensive notes and appendices. Colour portrait frontispiece of Archibald Winterbottom (18141884) and colour portrait of George Harold Winterbottom (1860-1934), the founders of the Winterbottom Book Cloth Company (1891-1980).

Due to the large amount of bookcloth samples contained in this book, the original published price of this work was $650.00 4 Copies in this Collection

56. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LEATHER FOR BOOKBINDING EDITED FOR THE SOCIETY OF ARTS AND THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF LEATHERSELLERS 1905 Report Of The Committee On Leather For Bookbinding Small, Published for the Royal Society of Arts by George Bell, 1905. 4to. cloth. (x), 120, (2) pages. Edited by the Rt. Hon. Viscount Cobham and Sir Henry Trueman Wood. Second edition. (Brenni no.121). Two major sections; one giving a report on libraries and bookbinding and the other on preparation of leathers for bookbindings. Appendices give information on preservation for collectors and librarians, the fading of color from leather, etc. With 11 colored plates, other illustrations in black-and-white and 12 actual specimens of leather tipped-in on the inside covers of the book.

57. SSZ BOOKBINDING SERVICE BROCHURE OF THERE BOOKBINDING SERVICE FROM 1994 In 1988, Sangorski and Suttcliffe merged with Zaehnsdorf's bindery in Bermondsey (established

by Joseph Zaehnsdorf in 1842). The combined business was bought by Asprey in 1988 and renamed SSZ Limited. They still bound fine books, for external Customers and for Asprey’s having signed there bindings under both names, books bound specifically for Asprey’s for sale were signed bindings by Asprey’s the rest were signed SSZ.

33 58. A CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE BOOKS IN HANDSOME BINDINGS, ZAEHNSDORF Catalogue of Valuable books in Handsome Bindings, 1900's List of Selected books with handsome bindings Bound by Zaehnsdorf Bookbinders. London.

Bound in 1/4 green Morocco by Zaehnsdorf.

From the reference Library of Zeahnsdorf’s

59. THE ZEAHNSDORFS BROOMHEAD BROOMHEAD. THE ZEAHNSDORFS Broomhead. The Zaehndorfs. London: Private Libraries Association, 1986.

Numbered Copy, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Full-Leather.

As New. 1 of 100 copies bound in full green morocco extra gilt. Full gilt leather paste downs in Red, and Green leather ffep, housed in Green cloth Slip case and felt lined.

These were bound just before Zeahnsdorf’s merged with Sangorski and Sutcliffe, At that point they still had copies of this book in full gilt boxed up and never sold.

34 60. THE ZEAHNSDORFS BROOMHEAD BROOMHEAD. THE ZEAHNSDORFS London: Private Libraries Association, 1986. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. unbound copy Very Good / Very Good. 2,500 copies of which 1000 for sale First Edition

61. THE ZEAHNSDORFS BROOMHEAD BROOMHEAD. THE ZEAHNSDORFS London: Private Libraries Association, 1986. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original Cloth in Glassine dust jacket Very Good / Very Good. 2,500 copies of which 1000 for sale First Edition

62. EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF ROGER PAYNE Book Description: The Harbor Press, New York, 1928. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Beautiful volume.

63. ROGER PAYNE. ENGLISH BOOKBINDER OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. DAVENPORT, CYRIL; ROGER PAYNE Caxton Club, Chicago, 1929. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very good+ condition. First edition.

Folio. xx, 81 pages of text including an index, followed by 32 plates including 6 in color.

Additionally illustrated by a frontispiece of Payne in his workshop. Original hardcover binding with minimal sunning to spine, and minimal bumping to the corners. Limited edition: 250 copies published with the text on English Handmade Paper by Walter Lewis. Includes the original slipcase, which is quite worn, but remains intact and functional. From the collection of Louis Marder, Shakespeare historian and collector of books by, on or referring to William Shakespeare.

64. AN ITERESTING LITTLE ITEM GIVEN TO ME BY THE LATE RUSS JOHNASON, SEATTLE. THE BOOK; Practical Wisdom,1901. A piece of bookbinding history, this book has tipped in a letter on Sangorski & Sutcliffe headed paper a note signed Stanley Bray May 20th 1949. Stating that this book Practical wisdom (now imperfect ) was no doubt one of the first very earliest bindings produced by this firm!, a wonderful piece of book binding history from one of the firms that made fine bindings a marvel and never repeated….

35 65. ORIGINAL NEWS PAPPER ARTICLE; FRONT PAGE OF THE LEWISHAW BOUROUGH NEWS 1955.

The article goes into depth about the kind of restoration work carried out by C.E.Smart and the type of customers and trade he works for. A fascinating piece of history, the article was from 1955, C. E. Smart died in 1961, from stomach cancer due to an injury in the air force during the II world war. At that time John Smart “My father” had already been in the family business for 7 years joining his father as the son that could not achieve anything in life, he worked to pay for his 2 elder brothers to go through naval college, both have passed away already through a hard life with the ocean and drink…. His Brother Duncan and David, I very much new them both, Duncan took me to the Woodman Pub Southampton for my first beer at 13 years old. I only told my dad recently, he was not surprised.

66. BOOKBINDINGS BY T.J.COBDEN SANDERSON, FREDRICK ADAMS Adams Fredrick. Bookbindings By T.J.Cobden Sanderson. New York: Peirmont Morgan Library, 1969.

Limited. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original Wraps. Very Good New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969., 1969. Quarto. Printed wrappers. 36 black and white full-page plates. Very good, wrappers sunned at edges and spine, First edition, one of 1350 copies. Loan exhibition of 60 bindings by Cobden- Sanderson. the Doves Bindery and some of his contemporaries.

67. COBDEN-SANDERSON. CLOSING OF THE DOVES BINDERY. Cobden-Sanderson. Closing of the Doves Bindery. Illustrated. Grabhorn-Hoyem. First Edition.

Stanford University Libraries, April 1969, 102 copies for the Roxbury Club, printed in red and black by Grabhorn-Hoyem, 8vo, (16)pp.

Wrappers. The Closing of the Doves Press: A letter from Cobden-Sanderson with a Preface by David Magee. A keepsake to commemorate the opening of an exhibition of Cobden-Sanderson bindings, books from the Doves Press and the Doves Bindery, selected from the collections of Norman H. Strouse and Morgan A. Gunst.

68. THE BOOKBINDING CAREER OF RACHEL MCMASTERS MILLER HUNT Titcombe, Marianne Fletcher. The Bookbinding Career of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Hunt Botanical Library, 1974. First Edition. Large octavo. 63pp. List of exhibited bindings, glossary. With a descriptive catalogue listing more than one hundred twenty bindings; illustrated throughout. Quarter green cloth and marbled paper over boards. A Near Fine copy.

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69. BOOKBINDERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (OUTSIDE LONDON) 1780-1840 RAMSDEN, CHARLES Privately Printed, London, 1954. blue cloth, top edge gilt. Bookbinding (illustrator). small 4to. blue cloth, top edge gilt. xvi, 250 pages. S-K 3515. First edition, limited to 500 copies. With 16 plates of book-bindings. Gives biographical information including addresses and references

70. THE BIRDSALL COLLECTION OF FINISHING TOOLS Evans & Grover, University of Toronto Library, Toronto, Canada, 1972.

Softcover. An overview of the Birdsall Collection of finishing tools held at the University of Toronto Library’s Department of Rare Books and Special Collections Original beige wraps 22 pp. 3 bw figures; 9 bw plates VG.

71. JAMES SCOTT AND WILLIAM SCOTT, BOOKBINDERS James Scott And William Scott, Bookbinders, Publisher: London: Scolar Press 1980 Hardcover Dust Jacket Included in good condition Roy.8vo, (260x176mm), xxvi,414p. 641 illustrations (including 490 of tools and rolls). A very good copy in original cloth, dust jacket. An authoritative study of the important Edinburgh bookbinders with illustrations of most of the known bindings. First edition. An excellent account of the lives and work of these two Scottish bookbinders. Beautifully illustrated with 170 full page plates, one fold out plate, and color frontispiece.

72. AN EXHIBITION AT THE HOUGHTON LIBRARY. Walsh, James E. Arno Werner: Master Bookbinder; An Exhibition at The Houghton Library.

Cambridge Massachusetts: The Houghton Library, 1981. Quarto. 33pp. More than a dozen illustrations from photographs, frontispiece photograph of the artist. Full green cloth over boards, gilt leather spine label. A Fine copy. Detailed information on the sixty-three bindings in this exhibit.

37 73. HAND BOOKBINDING IN CALIFORNIA, A Keepsake In Twelve Parts For The Members Of The Book Club Of California Artichoke Press, (Mountain View, California, 1994. stiff paper portfolio. Bookbinding (illustrator). small 4to. stiff paper portfolio. (48) pages. A collection of twelve folders made for the members of the Book Club of California by Jonathan Clark. Co-edited by Shasky and Joanne Sonnichsen. Each folder is a leaf folded into four pages, containing an essay on a different facet of either bookbinding or collecting. Various colors used for the leaves. The gilt decorated cover is adapted from the Founding Statement of The Bookbinders' Guild of California, 1902. Typeface is Adobe Jenson, a multiple-master design by Robert Slimbach used here for the first time in publication, courtesy of Adobe Systems, Inc. Illustrations throughout. Folders loose in stiff paper portfolio.

74. PIERRE OUVRARD, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA PRESS Inscribed By Author Jeannine Green Head of Specail Collectoins University of Alberta To Richard Smart on his arrival to Canada in the year 2000.

University of Alberta Press, Canada, 2000. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 276 x 204 mm.

Language: French, English Brand New Book. One of Canada s foremost design bookbinders, Pierre Ouvrard has prepared more than five hundred beautiful, unique bindings over his fiftyyear career. Design binding is unusual branch of the book arts, blending craftsmanship, artistry, and literary sensitivity. In Ouvrard s hands, the book becomes a work of art as fine as any painting. This volume features more than three hundred of his best creations, including the sumptuous Governor General s Literary Award collection. The introductory essays, presented in both English and French, provide a context for appreciating this versatile artist: Alfred Van Peteghem (author and rare-book dealer); Normand Biron (art critic); and Pierre Ouvrard himself. Pierre Ouvrard s enthusiasm for his craft together with his enormous output over many years have resulted in a collection of work of unparalleled magnitude in the recent history of hand bookbinding in Canada. For those who enjoy unravelling the meaning behind bookbinders designs, this profusely illustrated book and fitting tribute to the man will provide a treasure trove of ideas ranging from the disarmingly simple to the provocatively enigmatic. Michael Wilcox, master bookbinder, Burleigh Falls, Ontario.

38 75. THE CURIOS AND TRAGIC DROWNING OF BOOK AND CREATOR ONLY MONTHS APART; LOST ON THE TITANIC THE STORY OF 'THE GREAT OMAR'.

Shepherds Sangorski & Sutcliffe and Zaehnsdorf’s, 2001. 4to, limited to 750 numbered copies, coloured frontis., 10 coloured tipped-in plates, numerous other plates, orig. decorated cloth.

This book tells the story of 'The Great Omar', a magnificent jewelled binding of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam that went down with the liner S.S. Titanic. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the binding was the most ambitious commission ever undertaken by the firm of London bookbinders. It took two years of continuous work to complete and boasted over a thousand precious and semi-precious jewels inlaid into the book's covers.

After the Titanic sank, just a few months later Francis Sangorski drowned whilst swimming at a beach in the UK trying to save a lady in distress.

76. RECOLLECTIONS A LIFE IN BOOKBINDING; BERNARD C. MIDDLETON British Library, London, first edition, 2000. Cloth, 8vo, 26 cm, xii, 126 pp, 8 pp of plates. "This is the autobiography of one of the world's leading book restorers, binding scholars, and international lecturers on book conservation and binding. It is also the very warm story of a gangly teenager's rise from his first position at the British Library's bindery to the pinnacle of his craft. This important work is not only this gifted craftsman's personal story - in Recollections the reader is treated to a unique insight into Britain's strict trade school, and indentured apprenticeship of the early first half of the 20th century. Originally published as a fine press book by Henry Morris on his renowned Bird & Bull Press, this edition has an expanded text with many additional historical illustrations. This edition also features foursix colour and forty-six black and white photographs of Bernard Middleton's finest binding designs. Recollections: A Life in Bookbinding should be on the shelf of any bibliophile interested in fine hand binding and the traditions of the men and women who make up this important art form." Fine in Fine dust wrapper.

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77. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF BOOKBINDING PRIDEAUX S. T. Prideaux, S.T. An Historical Sketch Of Bookbinding. London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1893. 8vo.

Cloth. Frontispiece, (viii), 303 pages First edition. A standard survey, with a chapter on early stamped bindings by E. Gordon Duff , 2 copies Both in very good condition.

78. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF BOOKBINDING PRIDEAUX S. T. ONE OF 120 NUMBERED COPIES PRINTED ON HAND-MADE PAPER. Lawrence & Bullen, London, 1893. original cloth. Bookbinding (illustrator). square 8vo. original cloth. Un-cut, viii, 303+(1) pages. With a Chapter on Early Stamped Bindings by E. Gordon Duff. First edition, one of 120 numbered copies printed on hand-made paper The appendix contains a detailed account of embroidered covers and book edge decoration. With a forty-five page bibliography of bookbinding at the end. Chip out of bottom of spine.

79. THE BINDING OF BOOKS, HORNE HERBERT P. Kegan Paul Trench Trubner, London, 1894. First edition. xvi, 224p. Illustrated with 12 inserted plates, some in color. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles on spine and upper cover From a series of Books About Books edited by Alfred W. Pollard Text clean, covers worn but quite sound.

80. THE BINDING OF BOOKS, HORNE HERBERT P. Kegan Paul Trench Trubner, London, 1894. First edition. Xvi, 224p. Illustrated with 12 inserted plates, some in color. Bound in 1/4 vellum 1 of 150 printed on japonica hand made paper From a series of Books About Books edited by Alfred W. Pollard Text clean, Covers Good Condition, Spine worn.

81. NOTES OF A BOOK LOVER, MATHEWS 1894 COMMERCIAL BINDINGS The Century Company, NY. Unbound. Book Condition: 8vo. "Matthews" 12pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 17 examples, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XLVIII, No. 5, September, 1894. The art of contemporary bookbinding by the major publishing houses Commercial Bookbinding. A single section from "Notes of a Book Lover" 1894

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82. NOTES OF A BOOK LOVER, MATHEWS 1894 BINDINGS OF THE PRESENT The Century Company, NY. Unbound. Book Condition: 8vo. “Matthews” 12pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated. Salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XLVIII, No. 5, September, 1894. The art of contemporary bookbinding by the major publishing houses Bindings of the Present, Bookbinding. A single section from “Notes of a Book Lover” 1894

83. NOTES OF A BOOK LOVER, MATHEWS 1894 BINDINGS OF THE PAST The Century Company, NY. Unbound. Book Condition: 8vo. "Matthews" 12pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated. salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XLVIII, No. 5, September, 1894. The art of contemporary bookbinding by the major publishing houses.

Bookbinding of the Past A single section from “Notes of a Book Lover” 1894

84. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ART OF AND CRAFT OF BOOKBINDING NORTH JAMES SHARP Ownership inscription in pencil Belonging to Frank Broomhead.

Central Bookbinding Works n.d. (20th century), Brighton. Paper Pamphlet with adverts at rear 8vo. (4) pages with 3 plates showing bookbindings executed by this firm. Short history followed by advertising for the firm.

85. BOOKBINDERS AND THEIR CRAFT PRIDEAUX S. T. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES. Book Description: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1903. Bookbinding (illustrator). 8vo. creme colored paper-covered spine with gray paper-covered boards, top edge gilt. xii, 298, (2) pages. S-K 119. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. (Mejer no.147; Brenni no.342).

Divided into eight chapters; 18th century English and Scottish bindings, Roger Payne, Les Relieurs Francais, Design in Bookbinding, Some French Binders of Today, Early Stamped Bindings, Early Italian Bindings and Some Notes on Pattern-making. Many illustrations. Jacket has small pieces chipped away and has been repaired along hinges. Book is in very fine condition cream colored paper-covered spine with gray paper-covered boards, top edge gilt.

Complete Dust Jacket slip case.

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86. BOOKBINDERS AND THEIR CRAFT PRIDEAUX S. T. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES. Book Description: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1903. Bookbinding (illustrator). 8vo. cream coloured paper-covered spine with gray paper-covered boards, top edge gilt. xii, 298, (2) pages. S-K 119. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. (Mejer no.147; Brenni no.342).

Divided into eight chapters; 18th century English and Scottish bindings, Roger Payne, Les Relieurs Francais, Design in Bookbinding, Some French Binders of Today, Early Stamped Bindings, Early Italian Bindings and Some Notes on Pattern-making. Many illustrations. Jacket has small pieces chipped away and has been repaired along hinges. Book is in very fine condition cream coloured paper-covered spine with gray paper-covered boards, top edge gilt.

Dust Jacket and Slip Case are missing,

87. MODERN BOOKBINDINGS, PRIDEAUX S. T. FIRST U.S. EDITION. E.P. Dutton and Company, New York, 1906. Bookbinding (illustrator). 8vo. red cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. x, 131 pages. First U.S. edition. (Appleton p.84; Brenni no.411). Divided into three sections: Modern English Binding, Modern French Binding and Edition Binding. With 58 plates showing bindings by Zhaehnsdorf’s, Riviere, Morell, DeCoverly, Fazakerly, Chivers, Cockerell, DeSauty, Adams, Michel, Gruel, Carayon, Canape and others. Spines ended shows wear at head. Bookplate. Red cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt.

88. FUNCTIONAL BOOKBINDING, WAKEMAN AND POLLARD LIMITED TO 180 NUMBERED COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS ONE OF THE 125 CLOTH BOUND COPIES The Plough Press, New Castle, DE and Kidlington, England, 1993. cloth, leather spine label.

Plough Press (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, leather spine label. 96 pages with six tipped-in handmade facsimile samples of cloth bindings and 31 other illustrations in black and white. Limited to 180 numbered copies of which this is one of the 125 cloth bound copies. Printed by hand by Paul Wakeman, the son of Geoffrey Wakeman, at the Plough Press. Three separate essays which provide a fascinating study of English trade binding from the sixteenth century to the midnineteenth century. In "Illustrations of English Trade Bindings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Geoffrey Wakeman describes what an ordinary book of the period looked like. Pollard's essay "Changes in the Style of Bookbinding, 1550-1830" originally appeared in "The Library" in 1956. The third article is again by Wakeman and is entitled "Bookbinding Styles in the Loughborough and Ashby-de-la-Zouch Parish Libraries." This article is based on illustrated slide lectures Wakeman gave while teaching at Loughborough and was meant to demonstrate to students the changes in binding style over the period covered in Pollard's article. These slides are reproduced as plates which are contained in a pocket in the back of the book.

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89. THE DEVELOPMENT OF CERTAIN STYLES OF BOOKBINDING, NIXON HOWARD M. Book Description: The Private Library Association, London, 1963. stiff paper wrappers.

Bookbinding (illustrator). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (16) Pages. S-K 691. History of the development of the "centre and corner piece" and the "interlacing ribbon" style of binding; accompanied by 32 illustrations of bindings on 8 plates. Ownership inscription in pencil.

90. FIVE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH BOOKBINDING, NIXON HOWARD M. Five Centuries of English Bookbinding. Publisher: Scolar Press, 1978, Hardcover, Dust Jacket Included; First Edition, 4to, 232,[10]pp., 100 plates of important bookbindings and a page of description for each, orig. cloth, d.w. 100 Articles from the Book Collector have been

combined into one volume.

91. FIVE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH BOOKBINDING, NIXON HOWARD M. One (of fifteen) copies bound for the publishers by Zaehnsdorf, this copy bound for A.E.F. Davis and is number one, signed by Nixon, Nixon Howard M. Five Centuries of English Bookbinding. 1979. Numbered.

8vo - over 7他" - 9他" tall. Full-Leather.

Signed by Author.

43 As New Full morocco by Zaehnsdorf, smooth back, title and author to spine in gilt, covers with elaborate gilt frame, upper cover with inner morocco onlay with author and title in gilt, surrounded by three round frames, morocco doublures, morocco pastedowns and joints, a.e.g.

Very minor wear, generally bright and clean. Housed in a handsome, lined, morocco slipcase, which is slightly rubbed. One (of fifteen) copies bound for the publishers by Zaehnsdorf, this copy bound for A.E.F. Davis and is number one, signed by Nixon to title. An attractive copy of Nixon's excellent work.

92. A SHORT HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING WILLIAM MATTHEWS. 1895 Soft Cover 12mo, 45pp Staple bound wrappers with b&w illustrations. Faint tanning, very good condition contents are clean and unmarked. Scarce item.

93. BOOKBINDING, HARTHAN JOHN. London:, 1950. wrappers. First Edition. small 8vo, (28)pp. plus 64pp. of plates. Describing the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum. With an introduction on "The Development of Bookbinding Design" and a select bibliography of books on bookbinding. Slight shelf wear.

94. BOOKBINDING, HARTHAN JOHN. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR Harthan John. Bookbindings. London: HMSO, 1961. Second Edition. 12mo - over 6他" - 7他" tall.

Green Cloth. As New London: Victoria and Albert Museum / Her Majesty's Stationary Office, ., 1961. Gilt cloth. Photographs. Second, revised edition. Very Good Clean copy, without printed dust jacket, as issued. Representative examples of the art from the 9th century to the decade prior to publication.

95. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ART 1889 Bookbinding lecture by Cobden Sanderson, pg 466, Address on applied arts by William Morris bookbinding. A fairly rare book with a very interesting lecture as one of it subjects on art.

96. GOLD TOOLED BOOKBINDINGS IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY Bodleian Library, 1951. Soft cover. Book Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Bodleian Library Oxford, 1951. First Edition, 8pp., 24 illustrated, orig. printed wrappers. The bindings reproduced in this booklet have been chosen to illustrate some of the many styles of goldtooling current in Europe up to the eighteenth century.

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97. EARLY BINDINGS IN PAPER: A BRIEF HISTORY OF EUROPEAN HAND-MADE PAPER-COVERED BOOKS Michele Valerie Cloonan First edition, 1991. Laminated boards, 8vo, 22 cm, xi, 146 pp, [8] pp of plates. From the blurb: "Paper book covers occupy a distinctly ambiguous position in the history of books. Their often hybrid styles range from simple wrappers and laced-in constructions to the early cased bindings of the eighteenth century. Their conditions of manufacture are no less diffuse: they are known to have been produced not only by bookbinders, but by publishers, printers, booksellers, librarians and private collectors. This study examines the history and vocabulary of European paper-covered bindings from their origin in fifteenth-century Germany and Italy until the first quarter of the nineteenth century, after which time covers were mass-manufactured by a reorganized and consolidated publishing industry. The multilingual glossary includes as many terms in English, German, Italian and French as could be found for this special category of binding.

98. THE EARLIER CAMBRIDGE STATIONERS & BOOKBINDERS AND THE FIRST CAMBRIDGE PRINTER. GRAY, GEORGE J. First edition, letterpress printed by Horace Hart, 4to, pp. xv, [1], 81, [1]; title-page printed in black and red, 29 full-page plates; original front wrapper bound in; later half Âź brown morocco over Cloth boards, gilt- lettered direct on spine, t.e.g.; some scuffing of the spine, else very good.

"The first attempt to secure a proper position for the Cambridge Binders in the history of English bookbinding in the early part of the sixteenth century" (p.1). No. XIII in the Bibliographical Society's Illustrated Monographs series.

99. THE BRITISH BOOK TRADE, 1475-1890; Hill Howard T. H. Howard-Hill, T H. The British Book Trade, 1475-1890: A Bibliography. London and New Castle, Delaware: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, in association with The Bibliographical Society and the Bibliographical Society of America., 2009. ISBN: 9781584562559. First Edition.

Quarto. 1,876pp. in two volumes, plus an index on CD-ROM. Both volumes: Dark blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering stamped on the spine. Some shelf wear, otherwise a Near Fine set. // "This superbly comprehensive and detailed bibliography of the British book trade, the product of research in over three hundred libraries in the UK and USA, supersedes all bibliographies on British authors and authorship, bibliography itself, book collecting, bookbinding, book illustration, bookselling, censorship, copyright, libraries, literacy, papermaking, printing, publishing, textual criticism, and typography until 1890. More than 24,000 items (notably articles in trade journals) are lightly annotated and arranged in classified chronological order to illustrate the social and technological development of British book crafts and industries. Items are minutely indexed on the accompanying CD-ROM."

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100. NOTES ON BOOKBINDING; CHARLES GERRING, 1 of 100 copies signed by Gerring Small 8vo, 23 pages, 37 black and white plates, bound by J & G Abbott, Nottingham, Cloth bound with gold lettering on the front cover, title page in black and red print, No. 35 of 100 large copies un trimmed 1899, From the Library of Zhaehnsdorf’s.

101. MODERN BOOKBINDING PRACTICALLY CONSIDERED: A Lecture Read before the Grolier Club of New York, March 25, 1885 with Additions and New Illustrations Matthews, William, Grolier Club, New York, first edition, 1889, Limited edition of 300 copies.

Cloth, gilt cover device, 4to, 26 cm, 96 pp, plates.

102. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL BOOKBINDING; SZIRMAI J. A. Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, first edition, 1999., 1999. Cloth, 4to, 26 cm, xvi, 352 pp, ills.

From the introduction: "This book attempts to trace the evolution of the physical structure of the book in codex form, from its invention in the early centuries of our era to the end of the sixteenth century, a period I have arbitrarily designated as medieval. The subdivision into ten chapters follows a pattern of typological entities, defined on the basis of occurrence of a set of physical characteristics, partly confined within geographical and chronological boundaries."

Contents: Part I The Mediterranean Heritage 1 The first single-quire Coptic codices 2 The first multi-quire Coptic 3 Late Coptic codices 4 The Ethiopian codex 5 The Islamic codex 6 Byzantine codices Part II The medieval codex in the Western world 7 Carolingian bindings 8 Romanesque bindings 9 Gothic bindings 10 Limp bindings. Bibliography. Index.

103. THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING 525-1950 A.D. An Exhibition Held At The Baltimore Museum Of Art, November 12, 1957 To January 12, 1958 Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery Baltimore, 1957. First Edition, 4to, limited edition, 184 illustrations, on 106 plates, orig. decorated boards. This important exhibition of bookbindings was organized by Miss Dorothy Miner; 718 bindings are carefully described, with critical notes and references to published works, and 184 are illustrated on 106 half-tone plates. The exhibition was the most comprehensive to have been held since the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of 1891.

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104. A HISTORY OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING. WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE BOOKS OF THE ANCIENTS Brassington, W. Salt Elliot Stock, London, first edition, 1894., 1894.

Decorated cloth, top edge gilt, large 4to, 29 cm, xvi, 277, [1] pp, 10 colour plates, ills An early detailed general history of bookbinding, including some material on ancient books: the volume is a much expanded revision of "An inquiry into the nature and form of the books of the ancients" by John Hannett, and includes a short memoir of Hannett. Contents: Books of the Ancients. I. Introduction: the Earliest Records of Prehistoric Man. II. Records of the Earliest Nations - the Babylonian and Assyrian Books. III. The Records and Books of the Ancient Egyptians. IV. Books in the Times of the Greeks and Romans. A History of the Art of Bookbinding. V. First Bookbindings - Ivory Diptychs - Early Christian Bookbindings Byzantine VI. Carolingian Period Bookbindings in Ivory - Goldsmiths' Work and Enamel. VII. Celtic Bookbinding - Irish BookSatchels - Book-Shrines - Metal Bindings and Ornamental Leather Bookbindings. VIII. Monastic Bookbinding - English and Continental Bookbinding Up to the Invention of Printing. IX English Stamped-Leather Bookbinding in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries X. Continental Bookbinding in the Fifteenth century - Patrons of Literature - Leather Bookbinding; English Guilds - German, Italian, Netherland, and French Bindings. XI. English Stamped-Leather Binding; Trade Binding, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. XII Bookbinding in the Sixteenth century -Signatures Forwarding - Price of Bindings Restricted by Law in England - Books in Chains - Ornamented Edges -Embroidered Book-bindings. XIII Gold-Tooled Bindings; Italian - French - Great Collectors and Famous Bookbinders. XIV. British Royal Bindings - Bindings in Velvet, Gold, Silver, and Enamel - English Gold-Tooled Bindings from the Reign of Henry VIII to that of Queen Anne. XV. Modern English Bookbinding.

47 BINDINGS AND THEIR HISTORY Listed By Country or Period English Bindings 105. ENGLISH BOOKBINDINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM; Fletcher William Younger Countries Title: English Bookbinding’s in the British Museum :...

Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, Ltd, London, first edition, 1895.

Publication Date: 1895, Binding: Hardcover Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Cloth, title in red and black, top edge gilt, folio, xvii, [130] pp, 66 tissue-guarded chromolithograph plates, some heightened in gold. Fine chromolithograph illustrations of sixty-three examples of bindings selected on account of their beauty or historical interest, with introduction and descriptions, the plates by W. Griggs.

Includes examples of the bindings of Roger Payne, the Mearne’s, Wm. Churchill, Edward Castle, Eliot and Chapman Edwards of Halifax, Whitaker, Kalthoeber, Hering, Lewis, Bedford, Rivière, Zaehnsdorf, and others. Printed in gold and colours. From the preface: "The bindings represented m the Plates contained in this volume have been selected by permission of the Trustees from the magnificent collection preserved in the Library of the British Museum, and are all productions of English or Scottish craftsmen, or of foreigners who were domiciled in this country. Although they have been chosen on account of their beauty or historical interest, they also serve to illustrate the history of bookbinding in England from the end of the twelfth century to the latter half of the eighteenth, when the genius of Roger Payne raised the art from the low condition into which it had then fallen. The Plates are the work of Mr. William Griggs, Chromolithographer to the Queen; and all who are acquainted with the original bindings will not fail to recognise and appreciate the admirable skill and accuracy with which they have been copied. He has been especially successful in reproducing the present condition of the embroidered books, many of which have been greatly affected by time and exposure to light.

Each Plate is accompanied by a description of the binding represented, and, when possible, some account of the binder, and of the person or persons to whom the book upon which the binding is found once belonged, as well as any circumstances which give a special interest to the volume." Slightly bumped at extremities, some marks and soiling to covers, contents Very Good.

106. ROYAL ENGLISH BOOKBINDINGS; DAVENPORT CYRIL Davenport Cyril. Royal English Bookbindings. New York: Seeley and Co., 1896. First Edition.

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Poor Seeley and Co. Limited. Book Condition: Used - Very Good. 1896. Hardcover. Cloth, tall 8vo, 95 + 1 pp., 8 color plates + b/w illustrations throughout.

Maroon cloth with gilt on spine and decorations on front board. Very minor bumping to corners. ff,eps are toned. Chromolithographs are very bright. Separation between two central signatures, but otherwise, internals are very sound.

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107. ROYAL ENGLISH BOOKBINDINGS; DAVENPORT CYRIL Published by Seeley and Co, London, 1896, 8vo. original blue cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. 96 pages. First edition. A collection of bindings from the Royal Library in the British Museum, many of which were gathered by George III and his librarian Sir Frederick Barnard.

With eight plates of bindings printed in color by Edmund Evans and twenty-six in monochrome. Minor rubbing of covers. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt.

108. ENGLISH EMBROIDERED BOOKBINDINGS; DAVENPORT CYRIL Dodd Mead and Company, Ltd, New York, first American edition, 1899. Cloth, top edge gilt, small 4to, 22 cm, xxxi, 113 pp , 52 leaves of plates (some colour). From a review by A.W. Pollard: "A full account of the history of embroidered book-covers in England, and of the different methods of working them, illustrated with fifty-two plates by Mr. Griggs, of which six are in colours, the rest in black and white. Embroidery was applied to books in England as early as the fourteenth century, and in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries played a great part in English bookbinding, its use in other being small. Hence the selection of Mr. Davenport's book to lead off " The English Bookman's Library." The present writer, as editor of the series, contributes a "Jingo" introduction, in which he sets himself seriously to prove that "there is no art or craft connected with books in which England, at one time or another, has not held the primacy in Europe.

109. ENGLISH EMBROIDERED BOOKBINDINGS; DAVENPORT CYRIL Dodd Mead and Company, Ltd, New York, first American edition, 1899. Cloth, top edge gilt, small 4to, xxxi, 113 pp, 52 leaves of plates (some colour).

110. A BOOK BOUND FOR MARY QUEEN OF SCOTTS; BARWICK Printed for The Bibliographical Society at the Chiswick Press 1901 1/2 Niger Morocco bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, wrappers bound in.

First Edition, 4to, 27pp., coloured frontice. (offset), 2 coloured plates (one folding), Describing the binding and the binder and lists other books in the Queen's library. Illustrated with three plates in full color showing a reduced copy of the binding, the illuminated first page, and the center of the binding.

49 111. EARLY OXFORD BINDINGS; GIBSON STRICKLAND Publisher: Oxford University Press, (Oxford), 1903, Edition: 1st Edition 4to. 1/4 Brown Morocco (viii), 69 pages followed by 40 plates. First edition. A "contribution to the history of bookbinding at Oxford down to the period of the Civil War." This book is devoted to stamped and rolled bindings. (to the exclusion of tooling). A chronological list of Oxford binders, ca 1180-1640, follows lists of rolled and stamped bindings. Also included is an extract from the Bodleian Day Books (1613-24) and Account Book (1613-76). Number Ten in the Illustrated Monographs Series issued by the Society. Illustrated. Small tears along edges.

112. SAMUEL MEARNE. BINDER TO KING CHARLES II.1906 ; Davenport Cyril Davenport Cyril. The Caxton Club, 1906. First Edition. Samuel Mearne. Binder to King Charles II . Chicago. Published by the Caxton Club. 1906. Original gray paper covered boards, red cloth spine, paper spine label. Limited to 252 copies printed on hand-made paper. 12 3/8 by 9 3/4 inches. 118 pages. Spine faded and spotted. Label also faded with some bug damage at edges.

Covers very clean. Bottom corners with very minor bumping. Covers clean with just a bit of wear on the back. Side and bottom edges of pages uncut, some pages unopened. Some foxing to endpapers and pastedowns. Pages, plates and tissue guards quite clean, with just a hint of foxing here and there. No ownership or other markings. Text block tight and well attached to covers. A nice copy. presentation inscription to Charles J. Sawyer from an illegible dedicator.

113. BEAUTIFUL COSWAY BINDINGS; CURRIE MISS Illustrated Supplement to Catalogue 815: Beautiful Cosway Bindings, in Levant Morocco Richly tooled, with miniatures on ivory. date unknown.

114. A COLLECTION OF ARMORIAL BOOKBINDINGS; SMITH & BENGER A Collection of Armorial Bookbindings, Publisher: Ellis, London 1927, Soft cover Book Condition: Good Description: 54 page Cloth bound covers bound in, good condition, 5 photo illustrations with 350 examples of armorial book stamps and preface.

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115. ENGLISH EMBOSSED BINDINGS 1825-1850; JAMIESON ELEANORE Title: English Embossed Bindings 1825-1850 Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1972 Binding: Paperback Book Condition: Very Good The decorative art of embossed book binding was a small but significant facet of the Gothic Revival. Mrs. Jamieson studies the social and technological conditions which made possible the mass-production of handsomely bound books and analyses recurrent motifs and styles of binding of a number of books produced in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.

Editorial Reviews for this title: The decorative art of embossed book binding was a small but significant facet of the Gothic Revival. Mrs. Jamieson studies the social and technological conditions, which made possible the massproduction of handsomely bound books and analyses recurrent motifs and styles of binding

116. ROYAL ENGLISH BOOKBINDINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM Royal English Bookbinding’s in the British ...Publisher: Trustees of the British Museum, London, 1957; Pamphlet, Near Fine, Printed wrappers, 8vo, 22 cm, 8 pp, 16 ills. Most of the earlier royal English bookbinding’s in the British Museum were received when the Old Royal Library (including the Royal Manuscripts) was presented by King George II in 1757. This library - originally at St. James's, but kept after 1707 with the Cotton Library in various houses in Westminster - is rich in presentation bindings made for the Tudor sovereigns from King Henry VIII to Queen Elizabeth I. It also contains the library of Henry, Prince of Wales, mostly bound standard gold-blocked calf with the Prince's arms, together with numerous presentation bindings for King James I and King Charles I. .The second important source of royal bindings was the library of King George III, presented to the nation by his son in 1823, and now known as the King's Library and the King's Manuscripts. When in 1680 John Evelyn visited the King's 'private library at Whitehall', he found that it contained about one thousand volumes and that 'they consisted 'chiefly of such books as had from time to time been dedicated or presented to him'. It has been conjectured that the whole of this Whitehall library was destroyed in the disastrous fire of 1698. But some of the Books were either saved from the fire or had been previously transferred to other royal palaces, for quite a number of Charles II dedication copies came to the Museum with the King's Library, This also contains bindings from the libraries of each sovereign from King James II to King George II as well as books which belonged to Queen Caroline, these are present in sufficient number to suggest that King George Ill's first act when he started to form his Library at Buckingham House (the future Buckingham Palace) was to comb the other royal residences of interesting books. The presence of important English books in bindings suggests that some volumes were removed from the Old Royal Library before it

51 came to the Museum in 1707, though these books might have migrated from the St, James's I before the beginning of the eighteenth century. Some of the finest royal bindings in the British Museum have also been acquired individually by purchase or donation or as part of the larger collections such as the Harleian Manuscripts or the Cracherode Library. Bound in Maroon Velvet binding.

117. TEXTILE AND EMBROIDERED BINDINGS. Textile and Embroidered Bindings; Bodleian Library, Oxford, first edition, 1971 wrappers, 8vo, 24 cm, 11 pp, 30 full-page plates. (From the introduction): The early years of the fourteenth century onwards rich textiles such as velvets and silk brocades had been used in royal and other lay circles for covering favourite or especially valuable manuscripts. From the fifteenth century in particular the velvet cover was often extra adorned by embroidery, but on the continent this form of deluxe binding yielded fairly rapidly in the sixteenth century to the new and more durable morocco binding with gold-tooling. In England embroidery remained widely popular until the mid seventeenth century, dying out only with the Civil War, after which morocco leather became more generally used here as well. Unfortunately the fragility of most textiles as a binding material, especially when used on the heavy wooden boards often necessary with parchment manuscripts, has resulted in a paucity of surviving specimens of such early bindings. Nevertheless, for the period 1500-1650 a certain number have survived and this is the principal period illustrated here. A certain number of prayer-books and similar items have continued, almost to the present day, to be bound in velvet or embroidered bindings and a few specimens of these have been included. Altogether some eighty-five textile and forty-five embroidered bindings have been found in the Bodleian, but there are others in college collections and some outstanding examples are reproduced in this booklet."

118. ENGLISH RESTORATION BOOKBINDINGS, English Restoration Bookbinding’s: Samuel Mearne; British Museum Publications Ltd, 1974 Hardcover 1st Edition First Edition, small 4to, 48pp., coloured frontice. 126 plates, orig. cloth, gilt. The forty years following the Restoration of King Charles II to his throne in 1660 were the golden age of English bookbinding.

119. ENGLISH RESTORATION BOOKBINDINGS, English Restoration Bookbinding’s: Samuel Mearne; British Museum Publications Ltd, 1974 Publisher: British Library Board, London, Trade Paperback, Near Fine, First Edition.

Frontice., 48 pp., illus. Catalogue of an exhibition. Minor edge-wear, still a near fine copy. 8vo.

52 120. FLETCHER, W.Y. BOOKBINDING IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE. TWO PARTS IN ONE. ILLUSTRATED Seeley and Co., Ltd., London, first combined edition, 1897, Red Cloth, gilt cover device, top edge gilt, 8vo, 51 pp, 9 colour plates, 9 ills + 80 pp, 8 colour plates, 31 ills. This edition combines "English Bookbinding’s" (1896) and "French Bookbinding’s" (1895). From a catalogue note in The Guild of Book Workers Journal on the French volume: "A well-illustrated survey of the high-spots of French binding, which inevitably includes much about the early collectors as well.

The period covered is from the invention of printing to the time of Trautz and Duru. Fletcher was Assistant Keeper of Printed Books of the British Museum, and the books illustrated are apparently from that collection."

121. BRITHISH BOOKBINDING TODAY; MANSFIELD EDGER Book Description: Lilly Library, Bloomington, 1976. stiff paper wrappers. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 67 pages and 39 full color plates of modern bindings. With an Introduction by Edgar Mansfield. Duval and Hamilton in England commissioned 23 members of Britain's Designer Bookbinders to produce the bindings in a period of two years. This collection was then sold to the Lilly Library. Not in Brenni.

122. THE HISTORY OF DECORATED BOOKBINDING IN ENGLAND; FOOT M. MIRJAM The History of Decorated Bookbinding in England, Clarendon Press, Oxford, first edition, 1992.

Hardcover Dust Jacket Included.

Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm, xviii, 124 pp, 12 colour plates and 128 black-and-white plates. A history of English decorated bookbinding from the beginnings to Edgar Mansfield. Contents: 1 From the Beginning to 1520; 2 Gold-Tooled Sixteenth-Century Bindings; 3 The First Sixty Years of the Seventeenth Century; 4 The Restoration Period; 5 The Eighteenth Century; 6 From 1898 until the Beginning of the Modern Movement; Index. Near Fine, in plain plastic dust wrapper as issued.

123. ENGLISH BOOKBINDING STYLES 1450-1800; DAVID PEARSON British Library 2004 This book provides guidance on recognising and dating English bindings of the hand press period. In addition to providing practical help in placing particular bindings within their time and place, the book encourages a new approach to historic bindings, concentrating on what a binding can tell us about previous owners and their approach to books.

53 124. TRADE BOOKBINDING IN THE BRITISH ISLES, 1660-1800; STUART BENNETT 176pp. Quarto. Cloth and boards. Extensively illustrated with color photographs. New in dust jacket. First edition of this very significant contribution to the study of the interrelations between printers, binders and booksellers during the period, demonstrating from extensive evidence that books were "predominantly sold ready-bound in sheep, calf, and goat as well as boards and wrappers," rather than, as conventionally assumed, almost exclusively in the latter form, or in sheets, to then be bound at the discretion of the buyer. "This book proposes a new way of looking at bookbinding’s produced in the British Isles before 1800.By demonstrating that the overwhelming majority of these bindings were produced for booksellers, this study asks scholars to take a new look at them, to identify patterns which allow the inference of a common origin, and to associate bindings. 2 Copies!

125. ENGLISH HERALDIC BOOK-STAMPS; DAVENPORT CYRIL English Heraldic Book-Stamps., Publisher: London Archibald Constable & Co Ltd 1909 Many drawings of coats-of-arms. Hinges split, else a nice copy.

126. VICTORIAN BOOKBINDINGS; ALLEN SUE Victorian Bookbindings: A Pictorial Survey. The University of Chicago, 1976 Soft cover Revised Edition, v,53pp., 3 coloured microfiche (containing 251 photographs of bookbindings), orig. printed wrappers. The 251 photographs presented here on microfiche illustrate the various cloth stamping techniques from the initial attempts at embossing, "blind stamping," and gold stamping to the more sophisticated processes developed later in the century.

127. AN ANNOTATED DICTIONARY OF FOREEDGE PAINTING ARTISTS & BINDERS; (Mostly English & American). The Fore-edge Paintings of Miss C. B. Currie; with a Catalogue Raisonné.

WEBER, Jeff.

Inscribed by the Author, to Richard Smart who bound 15 Vols limited edition, in full Morocco.

Published by Weber Rare Books 20, Los Angeles:, 2010 THIS BOOK IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO FORE-EDGE PAINTING HISTORY IN OVER 40 YEARS. IT IS THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE ANNOTATED DICTIONARY TO CONTAIN THE IDENTIFICATION OF ALL KNOWN

54 FORE-EDGE PAINTERS AND BINDERS. Limited Edition of 980 copies, printed and designed

by Patrick Reagh, Printers. This book will become instantly the single most important work on the history of fore-edge painted books. Signed by the author. This is the most important contribution to fore-edge painting history in over 40 years. The text contains the first comprehensive annotated dictionary to contain the identification of all known fore-edge painters and binders. The book is sure to become the authoritative resource for fore-edge painting identification. The book is profusely illustrated with color reproductions. Containing essentially two parts, the first will appeal to everyone with a fore-edge painting: a comprehensive annotated and illustrated dictionary of every artist and binder known to make and sign fore-edge paintings. This will include some additional binders and artists whose work can be grouped and identified, as well as including some binders who are suspect and possibly never made fore-edge paintings. An attempt is made to prove the work of every person and to give numerous examples. Included will be the most comprehensive assessment of seventeenth century English fore-edge specimens up to the present. The other part is a full history of the mysterious Ms C. B. Currie, one of the most important fore-edge artists from England in the twentieth century and the only artist to have numbered her editions. This project was challenging since no record of her entire fore-edge work exists and her own identity has been unknown until recently. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born Cambridge, Massachusetts, Weber grew up on Stanford University campus, attended UCLA (BA on Middle Eastern History) and Indiana University (Masters of Library Science). Worked with Jake Zeitlin at Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers, Los Angeles (1978-1987); started Jeff Weber Rare Books in 1987, specializing in the history of science & medicine, history of the book & printing. Weber is recognized as the foremost authority on the history of fore-edge paintings as a result of collecting, study, lectures and articles. In 2006 he issued a monograph on the fore-edge paintings of English book collector, poet and artist John T. Beer, the first man known to regularly sign his fore-edge paintings. This book became the first complete study of a fore-edge artist, includes a catalogue raisonnĂŠ, and traces the movement of every book Beer painted, placing many in private & public collections. 10 x 7 inches. approx. 432 pages. Illustrated throughout, indexes. Cloth, dustjacket. New.

Scottish Bindings 128. A HISTORY OF SCOTTISH BOOKBINDING 1432 – 1650; MITCHELL WILLIAM S. Book Description: Edinburgh Oliver and Boyd (1955), 1955. First edition. (Appleton p.83).

Contains a bibliography and a census of bindings. Alphabetical list of 85 binders working in Scotland before 1650 is also given. Large 8vo., cloth, gilt decorated. xii, 150 pages followed by 48 full page plates. 2 Copies!

55 Irish Bindings 129. IRISH BOOKBINDINGS 1600 – 1800; MAURICE CRAIG IRISH BOOKBINDINGS, 1600-1800. Hardcover, 1st Edition, 1954 CRAIG, Maurice. IRISH BOOKBINDINGS, 1600-1800. London: Cassell, 1954. Folio. Cloth. 60 pages, 58 plates. First edition. The definitive study of early Irish bookbinding. Very Good,

130. IRISH BOOKBINDINGS; MAURICE CRAIG Book Description: Eason, Dublin, 1976. 1st Edition. Illustrated. With 18 full colour plates.

Subjects: Irish Bookbinding’s. Irish heritage. Notes: Includes bibliography. – [Number 6 in the Irish Heritage Series]. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.

131. FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE ART OF THE BOOK IN IRELAND; JOSEPH MCDONNELL Five Hundred Years of the Art of the Book in Ireland, National Gallery of Ireland / Merrell Large format (quarto) hardcover, 176 pages. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the National Gallery in Ireland, this book consists mainly of full-page colour illustrations of the finest bindings ever produced in Ireland. A scholarly text and bibliography accompanies the sumptuous illustrations. Bound in full red cloth, gilt lettered on spine; a Fine copy, no flaws at all. 2 Copies!

French Bindings A SCARCE WORK. FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE BOOKBINDING HISTORIAN, FRANK BROOMHEAD. 132. CERCLE DE LA LIBRAIRIE. EXPOSITION DE RELIURES Cercle de la Librairie. Exposition de Reliures . Paris: 1892. Limited. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Soft Cover. Fine BOOKBINDING. Exposition de Reliures Organisée par le Cercle de la Librairie Novembre-Décembre 1892. Chambre Syndicale de la Reliure. Paris: [impr. Chamerot et Renouard], 1892. Folio, [6]pp., 13 plates, orig. paper wrappers, cloth portfolio, printed label on upper cover, a very nice copy. A scarce work. From the library of the bookbinding historian, Frank Broomhead.

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133. BOOKBINDING IN FRANCE; FLETCHER WILLIAM YOUNG Seeley, London., 1894. Book Condition: Very Good. Hard Cover. First edition. Book-VG; in green binding with gilt titles on spine leather lace inlays on front cover extra gilt (no stick on plates), 80pp. 8 coloured plates and 31 illustrations

134. BOOKBINDING IN FRANCE; FLETCHER WILLIAM YOUNG Book Description: Seeley, London., 1894. Book Condition: Very Good. Hard Cover. First edition. Book-VG; in 1/2 black morocco with gilt titles on spine, (no stick on plates), 80pp. 8 coloured plates and 31 illustrations blue wrappers bound in.

135. BIBLIOGRAPHICA, PT III BY FLETCHER W. YOUNGER 1896 THIS WAS NIXON'S COPY Latter paper wrappers, with 2 plates in full colour with 2 letters loosely inserted, one dated 1881 from Charles Lonquet Higgins the medical doctor at Turvey, Concerning books in his library, One note by Howard Nixon in Pencil Listed in the Oak knoll Catalogue, 1984.

Books from the library of Howard M. Nixon, & McLean.

136. L'ART DANS LA DECORATION DES LIVRES; UZANE OCTAVE L'Art dans la Décoration Extérieure des Livres, Société Française d'Editions d'Art, Paris, 1898 Quarto, Contemporary Dark Red half morocco the flat spine lettered in gilt with the author and title, Limited edition of 1060 copies, this copy numbered 373, one of 1000 copies on papier vélin. A delightful and informative fin-de-siecle work concentrating on the way art was being applied to the decoration of the exterior of books of all kinds: from the illustrations on paper wrappers, to the decoration of cloth publishers bindings to the unique work being produced by the fine-art binders of the period. The designs for wrappers are ably represented by the

57 charming art nouveau design by Louis Rhead for the original covers of the present work (here bound in at the front and back), The illustrations in the text supply numerous other examples from all three categories, highlighting the best work of the period. (10 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches). Twocolour decorative title and additional title, numerous illustrations, many printed in a tone, 128 plates printed recto and verso of 64 leaves, most printed in a tone.

137. CATALOGUE DE RELIURES DU XVe AU XIXe SIÈCLE, EN VENTE A LA LIBRAIRIE; GUMUCHIAN & CIE. N. D. Gumuchian & Cie N.d. CATALOGUE DE RELIURES DU XVE AU XIXE SIÈCLE, EN VENTE A LA LIBRAIRIE GUMUCHIAN & CIE.. Paris: Gumuchian & Cie N.d, 1930. Numbered. Folio over 12" - 15" tall. Buckram. Fair Gumuchian & Cie n.d. (circa 1930s), Paris, 1930. Catalogue no.12 issued by this bookselling firm. This is one of 100 numbered copies printed on "Papier de Hollande" (Brenni no. 288). The catalogue has descriptions of 398 books with well over onethird of them illustrated. The descriptions are detailed and the text is aided by indices to provenance and authors. With the Randeria bookplate. Chipped at head of spine. 4to., paper wrappers. vi, 182 pages and 135 plates of bindings including some in full color.

138. L'ART DE LA RELIURE DU XVI au XX SIECLE par P. Culot Extrait du livre LIBER LIBRORUM 5000 ans d'art du livre.

Art of bookbinding from the 16th to 20th centuries] an extract by Paul Culot - the Belgian binder and scholar SIGNED TO GRAHAM POLLARD. The extract is from : Liber Librorum, 5000 ans d`art du livre. Un panorama historique de Fernand Baudin, Andre E. Boutemy, Paul Culot, Charles Delvoye, David Diringer, Emel Esin, Kenneth Gardner, Albertine Gaur, Martin Gimm, Richard F. Hosking, Claudine Lemaire, Ruari McLean, Otto Mazal, Luigi Michelini Tocci, Nigel J. Morgan, Heinrich T. Musper, Paul Pieper, Helmut Presser, MGR. J. Ruysschaert, Antoine de Schryver, Marcel Thomas, Norah M. Titley, Hendrik Vervliet, Kurt Weitzmann.

Vervliet, Hendrik & Liebaers, Herman. Published by Bruxelles Arcade, 1972, 310 x 280mm, Title, 472-499p, Plates tipped on. Printed on recto only. Single un-bound sheets in creek card cover with printed title to bottom fore-edge corner.

139. LA RELIURE MODERNE ARTISTIQUE ET FANTAISISTE. Uzanne, Octave. ; Albert-Dujardin, P. Adeline, J. ; Fraipont, J. La Reliure Moderne Artistique et Fantaisiste, Edouard Rouveyre, Paris, first edition, 1887. 1st Edition.

Limited edition of 1500 copies., Original purple wrappers, , large 8vo, 27 cm, 263, [5], viii pp, LXXII plates with tissue guards.

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140. LA RELIURE MODERNE ARTISTIQUE ET FANTAISISTE. Uzanne, Octave. ; Albert-Dujardin, P. Adeline, J. ; Fraipont, J. Rouveyre ,, Paris , 1887 First Edition, Cm . 26.5 , pp . ( 4 ) 263 ( 5 ) + viii . Frontispiece engraved copper , graceful cartoons woodblock theme in the text and 72 -page plates depicting precious bindings illustrated, Bound in full Levant, extra gilt, in excellent condition. Printed edition on strong paper , in 1500 numbered copies. The iconographic part is an interesting view of the most beautiful art of the nineteenth Century.

141. L'ANCIENNE FRANCE. LE LIVRE ET LES ARTS QUI S'Y RATTACHENT DEPUIS LES ORIGINES JUSQUÀ LA FIN DU XVIIIÈ SIÈCLE. Louisy, M.P. Published by Paris: Firmin Didot, Paris, 1886 Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (ii), 270p, (2). Contemporary half calf over marbleized boards. Spine gilt ruled with red label. The work includes sections on papermaking, printing, bindings and is well illustrated. Some minor rubbing along the hinges. Otherwise a clean and fresh copy Original wrappers bound in.

Richly Illustrated and Beautifully Bound History of Fanfare Binding No. 28 of 30 142. LES RELIURES À LA FANFARE. LE PROBLÈME DE L'S FERMÉ; HOBSON G D Bookbinding, Hobson Geoffrey D. Les Reliures a La Fanfare; London Chiswick Press. 1935 Folio, Original full Green Morocco Gilt, elaborately gilt decorated covers in Fanfare Style, top edge gilt uncut, Extra Suite of Plates in separate

printed envelope in original Slipcase.

Signed Limited Edition of this illustrated study of the history and technique of

59 Fanfare Binding, number 28 of only 30 Copies beautifully produced by Chiswick Press on Bachelor Paper and with extra plates from a total edition of 215 Signed by Hobson. Richly illustrated with 37 photogravures, eight in colour three folding and numerous in text facsimiles, Beautifully Bound in Fanfare Style by Leighton-Straker.

Geoffrey Hobson was a great authority on the history and craft of bookbinding. This is his definitive work on the style of bindings known as “a la fanfare” an intricately tooled style that predominated France in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Text in French with Addenda et Corrigenda Laid In. Light wear to envelope containing extra plates and slipcase, Plates and Book fine. A splendid volume Very Scarce especially with the extra plates.

143. BOOK BINDINGS FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN GROLIER; NIXON HOWARD M. BOOKBINDINGS FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN GROLIER. A LOAN EXHIBITION 23 SEPTEMBER - 31 OCTOBER 1965. London: British Museum, 1965, 8vo., simulated morocco, gilt stamped, specially made cloth slipcase. Frontispiece in color; 75 pages and 128 full page plates.

First edition. (Brenni no.281). Howard Nixon arranged this exhibition and wrote most of the catalogue.

Italian Bindings 144. MAIOLI, CANEVARI AND OTHERS; (MONOGRAPHS ON BOOKBINDING) HOBSON G. D. London, Eng.: Ernest Benn, 1926. Very Good. xvi, 178 p.: in-text drawings, 64 leaves of plates, of which 6 are color plates; 28 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. No dust jacket. Former owner's name at head of p. 1: Parker Morell. Monographs on bookbinding, no. 1. Contents: I. On a group of bindings decorated with plaquettes. II. Sixteenth-century bindings with architectural decoration. III. Thomae Maioli et amicorum. IV. Apollonio Filareto and his bindings. V. The great Canevari myth. Appendix. A note on the date and origin of Grolier's bindings. In Very Good Condition: cover slightly soiled; spine sunned; ends of spine frayed with slight loss of cloth; corners bumped; text is lightly foxed; plates are clean and bright.

60 145. DIE ITALIENISCHEN RENAISSANCE - EINBANDE DER BIBLIOTHEK FURSTENBERG; De Marinis Tammaro Book Description: Hamburg, Maximilian-Gesellschaft, 1966. With 79 illus. on plates. 190 pp., 1 leaf. Folio. Orig. cloth. Hamburg, Maximilian-Gesellschaft, 1966. Fine collection of Italian Renaissance bindings, grouped according to provenance: Rome, Florence, Bologna, Venice, Bergamo, and Milan.

146. L'ART ITALIEN DE LA RELIURE DU LIVRE (XV-XVI SIECLE); De Toldo, Vittorio Published by Monographies D'Arts Decoratifs # 3. Bottega di Poesia, Milan, 1924 9 3/4 x 7', 31pp. + 37 plates, some in color. French text edition of the Italian original. Printed paper covered boards. Slight bumping of corners, spine faded. Plates show Italian Bookbindings of 15th & 16th centuries. (French text).

Dutch Bindings 147. DUTCH DECORATED BOOKBINDING IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 4 Folio Volumes J. STORM VAN LEEUWEN Hes de Graaf Publishers bv, Netherlands, 2006. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 28 x 21 mm.

Language: English Brand New Book.

Awarded with the 15th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography 2010. This classic can be ranked among the well-known international standard works on the subject of bookbinding. The author, Dr. Jan Storm van Leeuwen, gives in this work an elaborate general historical introduction to his subject. It also contains a general introduction to each province, as they were known in the eigteenth century, and an extensive overall picture of the towns where luxury bindings were manufactured, describing the bookbinder s workshops and binderies of each town. The historical introduction is completed with a catalogue of the approximately 2000 relevant bindings in the collections of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) and its sister institution the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum.

About 1500 other bindings that the author studied over time in other collections are

61 also described. But the most important feature of this work is that all (nearly 10.000) stamps on these bindings are represented by a picture. Never before so many bindings (3500) have been recorded, described and discussed in such detail and with the benefit of an established model and terminology.

148. DE GESCHIEDENIS VAN DEN BOEKBAND; LOEBER JR., J.A. Geschiedenis Van Den Boekband Door Bibliopegus Amsterdamsche Grafische School, 1935, cloth, Bookbinding, 1st Edition8vo. cloth. (viii), 99 pages followed by 42 plates. First edition. S-K 1834. Written under the pseundonynm of Bibliopegus. History of bookbinding filled with illustrations of bindings taken from important Dutch libraries. These illustrations are often in color.

149. BOGBINDEREN AUGUST SANDGREN Forening for BoghaandvÌrk, (København), 1952. stiff paper wrappers. Bookbinding (illustrator). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 113+(1) pages. First edition. The talents of the Danish bookbinder Augustt Sandgren are recognized in this collection of essays. Among the contributors are Gustav Strand, Carl Roos, and Henrik Park. 20 black-and-white illustrations of his bindings. Bibliography at rear in Danish.

Austrian Bindings 150. EUROPAISCHE EINBANDKUNST AUS MITTELALTER UND NEUZEIT; MAZAL OTTO Mazal Otto. Europaische Einbandkunst aus Mittelalter und Neuzeit: . Austria: 1970. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Decorative Cloth. Very Good MAZAL (Otto) Europaische Einbandkunst aus Mittelalter und Neuzeit: 270 Einbande der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Graz: Akademische Druck - u. Verlagsanstalt, 1970. Folio, 94pp., 270 excellent plates (some coloured), orig. cloth. A selection of 270 bindings from the Austrian National Library.

From the library of the bookbinding historian, Frank Broomhead.

62 Turkish Bindings 151. TURKISH BOOKBINDINGS IN THE 15TH CENTURY; RABY AND TANINDI Azimuth Editions, London, England, 1993. Book Condition: New-. 34 x 25 ms. edition limited to 1,000 copies - gilt-embossed cloth with a gilt frame on the front cover and gilt-embossed red leather spine - 246 pages - in English - nearly 100 color illustrations, mostly plates and 77 b/w illustrations - a handsome work on seminal 15th Century Turkish bookbinding - Ottoman bookbinding before 1460, the books of Mehmed II, Bayezid II and the origins of the classical style - catalogue - structural features of the Ottoman book, tabby bindings, velvet bindings, and, a dynasty of binders - biblio., manuscripts in the Topkapi library and index of binders,

scribes, illuminators and designers.

Russian Bindings 152. RARE 1977 WESTERN EUROPEAN BOOK-BINDINGS 14TH-20TH CENTURIES USSR SET OF 16 POSTCARDS USSR RUSSIAN SOVIET

Западноевропейский переплет XIV-XX веков из собрания Государственного Эрмитажа This Original vintage complete set consists of 16 postcards, From the State Hermitage collection, Published by "Aurora Art Publishers" Leningrad 1977, In Russian/English, Limited print drawing, This postcards set is published in USSR.

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153. RUSSIAN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS; Olga Popova Thames and Hudson 1994, Examines the artistic style of the illuminated manuscripts produced in Russia from the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries.

154. KNIZHNYI PEREPLET; ANISIMOV, VLADIMIR IL’ICH [RUSSIAN] Knizhnyi pereplet [Russian] 1921 Softcover, Very Good, First Edition, Title page in red, with special decorative head and tailpieces on two leaves in gilt. A nicely preserved copy of this scarce Russian volume about decorative and historic bookbindings, from the early years of the Soviet era. Wrappers with only faint rubbing and soiling, with bumps and a bit of chipping to the upper corners. Scarce. Text in Russian throughout. A brief synopsis of the history and technique of bookbinding, with figures on separate sheets. Author: Anisimov, VI Publisher: Petersburg. State Publishing House Year : 1921 Pages: 106 Language : Russian.

Книжный переплет; АНИСИМОВ, Владимир Ильич [РОССИЯ] Книжный переплет [Русский] 1921 Мягкая обложка, Очень хороший, первое издание Название страницы в красном, со специальным декоративным головы и фитингов на двух листьев позолотой.Красиво сохраняется копия этой скудной объема российского около декоративных и исторических переплетных, с ранних лет советской эпохи. Упаковщики с только слабым трением и загрязнения, с выступами и немного сколов на верхних углах. Кроха. Текст в России повсюду.Краткий обзор истории и технике переплетного дела, с рисунками на отдельных листах. Автор: Анисимов, В. И. Издательство: Petegburg. Государственное издательство Год: 1921 Страниц: 106 Язык: русский

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155. АРОМАТ КНИЖНОГО ПЕРЕПЛЕТА (THE AROMA OF BOOKBINDING) Mihail Seslavinskiy The First Edition inscribed, 2008, and second, revised edition, 2011, undertaken three years after the first, reflects the major milestones in the history of the individual, or possessory, binding in Russia in XIX-XX centuries. In the introductory article, the author introduces readers to the way for two centuries changed the appearance of the binding (used materials, printing technologies, methods of external design), becoming a visible reflection of the trends that define the state of Russian society as a whole. The album includes books from his personal library Mikhail Seslavinsky. The publication is intended for bibliophiles, scientists, librarians, all lovers of art books. 2011, 544 pages Первое издание с надписями, 2008 , вовторых, переработанное издание , 2011 , предпринятая через три года послепервого, отражает основные вехи в истории личности, или владельческого , связывание в России в XIX -XX веках. Во вступительной статье ,автор знакомит читателей с тем, как на протяжении двух веков изменили внешний вид связывания ( используемых материалов , печать технологий, методов внешнего дизайна ) , ставвидимым отражением тенденций , которые определяют состояние российского общества как в целом. Альбом включает в себя книги из его личной библиотеки Михаил Сеславинский . Издание предназначено для библиофилов , ученых , библиотекарей, всех любителей книг по искусству . 2011, 544 стр 2 books a first edition inscribed by the author and the second revised Edition, They have been a great source of reference in the Russian bindings I do.

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German Bindings 156. RARITY ! VINTAGE GERMAN ART MAGAZINE (1942) Hitler book binding honor edition Axman Honor Gift 50th Birthday, Leather Covers, Boxes, Writing Surfaces, Unique Leather editions, and folder for Hitler Office.

A rare reference of single master pieces for high ranking officers… By Otto Dorfner and Otto Pfaff. 14” x 11” Bound in ¼ Black morocco Black paste paper sides.

66 American Bindings 157. AMERICAN BOOKBINDINGS IN THE LIBRARY OF HENRY WILLIAM POOR; Du Bois Henri Pene 1903 Du Bois Henri Pene. American Book-bindings. New York: George D. Smith Marion Press, 1903.

Numbered. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Half-Leather. Fair George D. Smith Marion Press New York, 1903. First Edition, small 4to, xvi,77pp., one of 238 numbered copies, 39 coloured plates (some offsetting), bookplate removed from front pastedown, front free endpaper excised, orig. cloth, slight signs of label having been removed from spine, a little rubbed, uncut. George D. Smith produced this elaborate catalogue for Poor, whose collection of bindings was one of the most important ever formed by an American. The sale of the Poor library took place in 1908-09 and the catalogue is illustrated with over 100 plates. This catalogue is beautifully produced and many of the plates are printed with as many as ten colours.

158. EARLY AMERICAN BOOK-BINDINGS; Papantonio Michael The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972., 1972. Book Condition: Very Good. 89pp [+61 plates]. 1st edition.

Softcover. Beige wraps with dark red titles, cover decoration. Profusely illustrated. Bibliographical Citations. Indexes. Foreword by Papantonio. Intro by Hannah Dustin French. Spine and cover edges bit darkened, Very Good. Excellent exhibition catalogue and one of the best guides to the subject. Identification of materials as well as binding tools provided when known.

159. FOUR PRIVATE LIBRARIES OF NEW YORK; HENRI PENE DU BOIS Duprat & Co., New York, 1892. Softcover. Book Condition: g. Limited ed. 1/200 on Japanese paper. This being No.112, 8vo. 119pp. Wrappers in illustrated, attached dj. All in great condition, Bright colored frontispiece, protected by tissue guard. Some pages unopened.

Fascinating book on forming a library and collecting books. Magnificently illustrated with 12 beautiful b/w and colored paintings, each protected by tissue guard. This copy inscribed by Joseph Lean Gobeille to Elbert Hubbard and a note to Mr. Hubbard by Gobeille attached to front wrapper. Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 – 1915) was an American philosopher and writer.

He founded Roycroft, an Arts and Crafts movement community in East Aurora, New York in 1895. This grew from his private press, the Roycroft Press. Hubbard established the Roycroft

67 Printing Shop at his home in East Aurora. The completely self-sufficient community eventually grew to five hundred people Thousands came from all over the world to see and praise an idea which had become a reality. From 1905 to 1915, Elbert Hubbard was a most sought after lecturer in the United States. His writings were in great demand, and the Hearst Newspapers paid handsomely for his services as a correspondent.

Catalogues and Collections 160. CATALOGUE DES MANUSCRITS ET LIVRES PRECIEUX. SOURGET, PATRICK & ELISABETH. 10 Catalogues from Vol XX - XXIX Patrick et Elisabeth Sourget, France, Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A fine Hardcover, in a fine jacket. Never opened, still in original shrinkwrap. Privately Printed. Folio - 225 X 303mm. tall. A superb catalogue of illuminated manuscripts and rare books in the French language, selected from the Librairie Sourget. striking pictorial dust wrapper. Lavishly illustrated throughout with full colour plates, showing rare and fine bindings, rare artworks, and manuscripts, the quality of which is unsurpassed by any similar collection. French text with laid-in price list.

161. THE CORTLANDT F. BISHOP LIBRARY. 4 Vols in stiff wrappers.

4 Vols, New York; American Art Association 1938, 1938, 1938, 1939 Small 4to Stiff Wrappers.

Very good set of this Magnificent Library Catalogue. Many plates of Bookbindings, A fifth Volume that is not present was issued in 1948and described bishops French Bindings.

68 162. THE BOOK COLLECTOR Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. 1966 London: The Collector Ltd, Spring, 1966. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Very good in wraps. [paperback]. Contents: Collector's Piece 1 - Imago Mundi.

Incunabula in the USSR 2. The Baltic Republics, Addenda and Concordances. 'The Librarian's Library': The William A. Jackson Bibliographical Collection II. English Scientific Autographs VII. Dicken's Battle of Life: Round Six. News and Comments. Bibliographical Notes and Queries. Book Reviews. 123 pp. English Bookbindings LVI, Howard M Nixon, A Guild of Women Binders Binding c. 1903,

London: The Collector Ltd, Summer, 1966. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Very good in wraps. [paperback]. Contents: Historical Notes on Ukrainian Bookbinding, Sophia Sentiment & Jane Austen, Contemporary Collectors, Bent Juel-Jensen, Unfamiliar Libraries X Dartmouth College Library. English Bookbindings LVII, Howard M Nixon, An Adam Binding 1764.

London: The Collector Ltd, Autumn 1966. First edition. 8vo. pp 412. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Very good in wraps. [paperback]. Contents: Collector's Piece 11. The Iniquity of oblivion foil'd. William Caxton and the Mercer's Company. The Works of William Dole. Some Uncollected Authors XL11. Royall Tyler, 1757-1826. English Bookbindings LVIII Howard M Nixon, Harlem Bindings.

London: The Collector Ltd, Winter, 1966. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Very good in wraps. [paperback]. Contents: Firma Tauchnitz 1837-1900, Three Opportunities, Bibliography of Beatrix Potter. English Bookbindings LIX, Howard M Nixon, London Panel Stamped Binding restoration.

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163. THE BOOK COLLECTOR’S QUARTERLY XIII 1934 The Book-Collector's Quarterly. Number Xiii: January-March 1934.

Flower, Desmond, A. J. A. Symons (Edits).

Published By Cassell & Co., London, 1934 First Edition. Wraps., 1934 8vo. Pp 95. Original Publisher's Cream Wraps, Lettered Brown On Spine And Front Cover Very Good Copy.

164. MAGGS BROS BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS IN EARLY MODERN BRITAIN (1530-1680).

Selection of Books, Manuscripts and Bindings; Catalogue 1272 Maggs Bros. Ltd, bookseller's catalogue 1272, 1999 ]. Published by Maggs Bros. Ltd, London, Illustrated wrappers, 4to. 27 cm, 219 pp, plates (some in colour). 173 items. A valuable catalogue with very well-annotated and informative entries. Very Good.

165. MAGGS BROS BOOKS AND READERS IN EARLY MODERN BRITAIN 1510-1815; a Selection of Books, Manuscripts and Bindings; Catalogue 1293 Maggs Bros, Published 2000 Illustrated wrappers, 4to. 27 cm,190 pp, plates (some in colour). 100 items. A valuable catalogue with very well-annotated and informative entries. Very Good.

166. THE LIBRARY OF WILLIAM FOYLE; three parts.

Part I. Medieval Renaissance Manuscripts, Part II Early Continental Books, Part III English Literature and Manuscripts, Travel Books Christie's London Tuesday 11 July 2000 Wednesday 12 July and Thursday 13 July 2000, William Foyle, Christie's Published by Christies

70 167. ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS : A COMPANION FOR BOOKSELLERS, LIBRARIANS AND COLLECTORS. Bernard, P. ; Bernard, L. ; O'Neill, A. Published by Scolar Press, Aldershot, first edition, 1994. (1994) Scolar Press, Aldershot, first edition, 1994., 1994. Cloth, 4to, 26 cm, xiv, 461 pp, "This companion sets out to provide in one comprehensive volume much of the essential information required by those who sell antiquarian and second hand books and by those who buy them. . The entries - some four hundred and fifty in all - include explanations of many technical terms used in the description of books. Printing, illustration and binding are all covered, as are many features of book trade practice.

Thirty specially commissioned longer articles provide important studies of the main aspects of the world of antiquarian hooks.

Antiquarian Books in the text as well as useful appendices, a comprehensive index, and text illustrations. The book is intended primarily for the dealer in antiquarian and second-hand books, but will be of interest to everyone with a professional or personal interest in the subject ". The longer articles are: Art and Architecture, by Peter Miller; Autographs and Manuscripts, by Sophie Dupré; Bibliography, by H. R. Woudhuysen; Book Auctions, by John Kerr; Book Collecting, by David Chambers; Bookplates and Book Labels, by Brian North Lee; Booksellers as Publishers, by Melanie McGrath; Bookselling in a Changing World, by Anthony Rota; Bookselling in England, by Philippa Bernard; Bookselling Practice, by Leo Bernard; Catalogues, by James Fergusson; Children’s Books, by David Miles; Colour Plate Books, by Elizabeth Merry; Computers for Booksellers, by Charles Ross; Cookery Books, by Janet Clarke; Dictionaries, by Karen Thomson; English Literature from 1500 101700, by Amanda Hall; English Literature of the Eighteenth Century, by Martin Hamlyn; English Literature of the Nineteenth Century, by Brian Lake; Fine Bookbinding, by Mirjam Foot; Illustrated Books, by Robin Greer; Incunabula, by Keith Fletcher; Military and Naval Books, by Tony Gilbert; Modern First Editions, by Angus O’Neill; Natural History, by Gillian Stone; Private Press Books, by John Byrne; Restoration and Repair, by Rob Shepherd; Science and Medicine, by Andrew Hunter; Travel Books, by Clive Farahar; Victorian books, by Robin de Beaumont.

71 168. AMONG THE GENTLY MAD: NICHOLAS A. BASBANES Perspectives And Strategies For The Book-Hunter In The 21st Century Signed by the author at SF bookfair A field guide for the modern book collector From the author of A Gentle Madness -a book with more than seventy thousand copies in print that delighted bibliophiles everywhere-comes a twenty-first-century guide to book collecting that deals with both the traditional methods of acquisition and the electronic tools now available on the Internet. Sharing the superb insight he has gathered from booksellers over the years, Nicholas Basbanes offers a refresher course on the fundamentals that endure, while questioning certain practices of doubtful validity. Topics include how to determine if a book is a first edition, how to spot book club editions, the importance of dust jackets, scouting the flea markets, how to work the book fairs, and the importance of handling the goods, as well as discussing less tangible issues like spotting trends and having a focus. Then he takes a long look at the pros and cons of Internet buying, illuminating how you can use these electronic tools to your advantage and making this the book no modern collector will want to be without.

169. THE GREAT BOOK-COLLECTORS; ELTON CHARLES & MARY Book Description: 8vo, vi, 228 p., [10] leaves of plates: ill., ports. ; 21 cm., London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Tru bner, 1893., 1893. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inserted plates; title-page in red and black; maroon cloth, spine and upper board titled in gilt. Some wear to foot of spine, nut generally a very good copy.

170. THE WORMSLEY LIBRARY; GETTY, SIR PAUL Published for the Wormsley Library by Maggs Bros. in co-operation with The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, London, first edition, 1999., 1999. Laminated wrappers, large 8vo, 30 cm, xii, 278 pp. 106 entries. Catalogue of an exhibition held at The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 27 January-2 May 1999. From the introduction: "The books reflect some of their collector's catholic enthusiasms. Early purchases include examples of fine printing in rich array, from incunables to modern private-press books, many on vellum, English hand-coloured aquatint books, chiefly travel and scenery, the flower of French illustrated books from Verard to Vollard, and, above all, a spectacular assemblage of fine bindings from medieval times to today. There are also splendid manuscripts, tike the magnificent Gradual from the monastery of Ottobeuren, the unique pages from the life of St. Thomas Becket, repatriated from Belgium some fifteen years ago, exquisite Books of Hours from France, Flanders, and England, and works that especially delight the English like the Psalter of Queen Anne Boleyn; there is also the jewel-like Renaissance psalter, once ascribed to Giulio Clovio, which belonged to Lord Arundel and Dr. Mead and was entombed in its inlaid and painted wooden box by Horace Walpole, the delicious little volumes of Songs of Innocence and of Experience that "William Blake coloured so singularly, and Cobden-Sanderson's binding of Marx's Das Kapital for "William Morris and

72 friends". As a collector, Sir Paul has focussed on his chosen areas with admirable discipline and thoroughness, rarely allowing himself to be seduced by works that might feel lonely on his shelves. In the field of bindings he has allowed himself greater latitude, and almost every manifestation of the bookbinder's art is there in splendid exemplars, from twelfth-century Limoges enamel, rude medieval coverings of hairy deer and greasy sheep, magnificent painted strapwork from the Renaissance, dazzling interlaces a la fanfare, glorious Restoration bindings

by Mearne and Cleeve and their contemporaries, and work by all the great masters and innovators in Europe up to our own times." Near Fine.

171. APPART FROM THE TEXT; ROTA ANTHONY Rota Anthony. Appart from the Text. London: 1998. First Edition. Cloth. Signed by Author. As New / As New. Private Libraries Association, Pinner, 1998. Cloth, dust-wrapper. First Edition.

Illustrated Limited to 2,200 copies, of which 1,400 for sale Fine copy This book is an exploration of what the physical appearance of 19th and 20th century books can teach us, not only about the history of publishing, but also about economic and social history and the career of authorship. It examines changes in binding styles from boards through cloth to paperbacks, noting trends in design, and studying the inception and subsequent virtual extinction of pictoral cloth bindings. It follows the evolution of the dust-wrapper from simple protective wrapping to elaborate artifact.

Changes in publishing practice come under review, as do the effects of two world wars on book production. Comparisons are drawn between English and American treatment of specific titles. The intention of this book is to give insight into bibliographical matters, which will not only be of help in textual, critical and bibliographical study, but will give readers added pleasure as they take a book from the shelf and open it - even before they begin to read. In short, this work is about what books offer "apart from the text".

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172. APPART FROM THE TEXT; ROTA ANTHONY Rota Anthony. Apart from the Text. London: 1998. First Edition. Half-Leather. Signed by Author. As New / As New. Private Libraries Association, Pinner, 1998. Cloth, dust-wrapper.

First Edition. Illustrated Limited to 2,200 copies, of which 1,400 for sale Fine copy This book is an exploration of what the physical appearance of 19th and 20th century books can teach us, not only about the history of publishing, but also about economic and social history and the career of authorship. It examines changes in binding styles from boards through cloth to paperbacks, noting trends in design, and studying the inception and subsequent virtual extinction of pictorial cloth bindings. It follows the evolution of the dust-wrapper from simple protective wrapping to elaborate artefact. Changes in publishing practice come under review, as do the effects of two world wars on book production. Comparisons are drawn between English and American treatment of specific titles. The intention of this book is to give insight into bibliographical matters, which will not only be of help in textual, critical and bibliographical study, but will give readers added pleasure as they take a book from the shelf and open it - even before they begin to read. In short, this work is about what books offer "apart from the text"

Printing and Design 173. ILLUSTRIRTE GESCHICHTE DER BUCHDRUCKERKUNST MIT BESONDERER BERUCKSICHTIGUNG IHRER TECHNISCHEN ENTWICKLUNG BIS ZUR GEGENWART. FAULMANN (KARL).

First edition, 8vo, pp.[iv],viii + fly-title + 806, A. Hartleben's Verlag. Wien, Pest, Leipzig, 1882., 1882. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 26 plates (14 colour, some folding), 380 figures in the text. Title-page in red, gold, black and mauve. Original green cloth, very ornately titled and blocked in gilt and black. Some wear to extremities, but overall a very fresh bright copy.

74 174. THE ART OF THE BOOK AND ITS ILLUSTRATION; POORTENAAR JAN; UK Edition Poortenaar Jan. The Art of the Book and Its Illustration. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1935.

First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Buckram. Fine George G. Harrap & Co., London, 1935.

Canvas. Book Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. With a Chapter

by Prof. Dr. Maurits Sabbe and a Foreword by C.H. StJ. Hornsby. First edition. Uses different types, paper and inks to put before the reader various possibilities of book design. Profusely illustrated. Includes tipped-in specimens. 182 pages followed by numerous plates.

175. THE ART OF THE BOOK AND ITS ILLUSTRATION; POORTENAAR JAN; US Edition Poortenaar Jan. The Art of the Book and Its Illustration. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1935.

First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Buckram. Fine J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1935. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. First American Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A truly wonderful book on books, in fine condition, One hundred and twenty-eight pages of illustrations in colors, Phtogravures and half-tones, etc. Some of the illustrations are errata sheets and examples of very fine print work. 182 pages plus a fabulous appendix of approximately 40 leaves, in all types of paper and type styles and fine printing.

Reference Books 176. THE LITERATURE OF BOOKBINDING; HOBSON A. R. A. National Book League / Cambridge University Press, London, 1954,Decorative Wrappers, Good Condition.

15 pp. (i). Number 2 in the publisher's series "The Book".

Published for the National Book League by Cambridge University Press. A bibliography of titles dealing with bookbinding organized by country. Appendix of books on bookbinding available in the National Book League Library. Internally clean and unmarked with sound binding. Three colour decorative wraps with pasted down title label on front panel. Minor abrasion on back panel. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

177. STUDIES IN THE BOOK TRADE; POLLARD GRAHAM, NIXON HOWARD M. 1975

75 Offprint from. Studies In The Book Trade In Honour Of Graham Pollard. Small 8vo. stiff wrappers bound-in. pp.153-194. With 8 full-page plates. (Brenni no.854). Presentation on front cover "Alan from Howard.

178. BOOKBINDING, INCLUDING BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARIES ... NIXON AND MCLEAN. (Bookbinding) BOOKBINDING, INCLUDING BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARIES ... NIXON AND MCLEAN. New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1984, 8vo., cloth. 144 pages. One of 200 numbered cloth bound copies. The cloth bound copies contain 20 additional pages with 40 illustrations that are not in the paper bound edition. Completely indexed. Over 700 books on bookbinding are described. Covers spotted. Ownership inscription in pencil.

179. EARLY BOOKBINDING MANUALS; POLLARD GRAHAM Oxford Bibliographical Society Bodleian Library, Oxford, first edition, 1984., 1984. Printed wrappers, 25 cm, xxv, 60 pp, ills. Oxford Bibliographical Society Occasional publication; no. 18.

Includes sections on manuals in Latin and Arabic, German, French, Swedish, Dutch, English and Italian and Other sources, "Workshop manuals only survive by accident. They are normally used until they drop to pieces and are thrown out. The tally of survivors in this list is very small. One must suppose that more were printed and perhaps remain to be discovered." With an alphabetical index of authors and titles. Anthony Hobson: "admirable. a model of a bibliographie raisonnée". Very Good.

180. THE USES OF BOOKBINDING LITERATURE; BRESLAUER BERNARD The Uses of Bookbinding Literature. New York, Book Arts Press, School of Library Service, Columbia University, 1986. Soft cover, 1st Edition Printed at the Meriden-Stinehour Press. 44 pp., (1 , 1 blank l.). One of 1,000 copies. 8°, original printed wrappers. As new. ---- FIRST and ONLY EDITION. A most impressive evaluative essay which succinctly surveys two hundred years of literature on the history of bookbinding. With a full bibliography of works mentioned in the text.

76 181. THE BINDERS ART; BERNARD C. MIDDLETON The Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection, Rochester, New York, 1989. paper wrappers.

Bookbinding (illustrator). 8vo. paper wrappers. (viii), 22 pages. With a foreword by Bernard C. Middleton and an introduction by David Pankow. First edition. Designed by Jerry Kelly.

Respected bookbinding historian and craftsman, Bernard C. Middleton seriously began collecting books on bookbinding in the 1940s. In the late 1950s, he acquired a number of rarities which once belonged in the fine Zaehnsdorf collection, the rarest of these purchases being Arnett's SCHOOL OF DESIGN. Later on as the collection grew more focused on the history and technique of bookbinding as well as a small number of fine bindings, Middleton also included books on paper-marbling, leather and conservation. The binding collection now numbers about 1,700 titles and includes a good collection of articles extracted from 19th and 20th-century periodicals and half a dozen boxes of ephemera - binders' publicity material, price lists, exhibition catalogues, newspaper clippings and various other oddities.

182. HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE BERNARD C. MIDDLETON COLLECTION; Bernard C. Middleton Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 2000. cloth. Bookbinding (illustrator). large 8vo. cloth. 123, (3) pages. First edition. Since the appearance of The Binder's Art in 1989, respected bookbinding historian and craftsman Bernard C. Middleton continued to add to his collection of books and ephemera on the history and techniques of bookbinding, begun in the 1940s. Numbering about 2,000 volumes, the love of Middleton's professional life is now installed in the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology where it is fully available to students and scholars in its own reading room. This catalogue describes and illustrates in color 34 highlights from Middleton's collection and is complemented by four classic Middleton essays updated, where appropriate, for this compilation.

183. BOOKBINDINGS & OTHER BIBLIOPHILY; Rhodes, Dennis E. (editor) Published by Edizioni Valdonega, Verona, 1994 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 368 pages. First edition. For over forty years, Anthony Hobson has occupied a commanding position in the world of books. Succeeding his father, G. D. Hobson, the great historian of bookbinding, as head of Sotheby's book department, he ran it for some twenty years with equal commercial skill and scholarly learning. Since then, he has established an independent reputation with a series of studies of bookbinding and the history of books generally concerning subjects in Renaissance Italy. On the occasion of his seventieth birthday, a group of his friends decided to honor his achievements with a collection of essays. Twelve contributors have provided essays on bookbinding and the history of books. The subjects range from great collectors, like Grolier, Mahieu, and Anne de Montmorency, to bookbinding techniques and the book trade. In geographical scope there are essays on Ethiopic bookbinding, the Visconti Library at Milan, and British book collectors in Italy. The book has been edited by Dennis Rhodes who has also compiled a bibliography of Anthony Hobson's writings. This book is itself a notable contribution to the history of books, bookbinding, and the book trade. It celebrates the achievements of a life devoted to these subjects.

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Additions To Be Added ROGER PAYNE. BOOKBINDER. BY PENELOPE HOLT BREWHOUSE BROADSHEET NUMBER 6 Wymondham: Brewhouse Press Private Press, 1969. (10.75 by 7.75 inches). Number 6 of the Brewhouse, Broadsheets. Limited to 200 copies. Illustrated by Rigby Graham.

Decorated folding card cover. Large single folded sheet inserted, 8 pages, text and illustrated.. In very good condition.

Uncommon

1861; STATIONERS, BOOKSELLERS & BOOKBINDERS. BELGRAVE SQUARE LONDON ENGLAND. Invoice From 1861 For Binding Work Carried Out By W. Blackburn.