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Turnhout: Brepols, 1996. 4to (270 x 210mm), 341pp., illustrated throughout, orig. decorated wrappers, some light folding to corners. The essays in this volume are not only about Roger Powell and his craft, but also as historical studies in the history of bookmaking a tribute to his insatiable curiosity about how books work. The Complete Binder is a… Read more about this item

London: The University of London. 1937. First edition, small 4to, 48pp., frontis., 10 plates, orig. printed wrappers. Exhibition catalogue covering English, Scottish, French, Italian, Spanish German, and Netherlandish bindings.

Baltimore, Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1957. First Edition, 4to, limited edition, 184 illustrs., 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… Read more about this item

Designer Bookbinders. 1994. 4to, 108pp., limited edition, over 160 full colour illustrs., orig. wrapper, printed paper label on upper cover. In 1894, the London booksellers James and Mary Lee Tregaskis sent out 76 copies of a little book, the Kelmscott Press 'King Florus and the Fair Jehane', commissioning bookbinders around the world to bind them. Within… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber. 1959. First edition, 126pp., coloured frontis., 18 plates, orig. cloth, d.w. Recounts one binding firm's history from 1781 to the end of the Second World War with plates of binding styles, a specimen of gold blocking and illustrations of presses and handbinding tools.

Stony Stratford: Patrick King Rare Books, 1979. 8vo, in ink to title page "The books were sold en bloc to a U. K. collector", 46 full-page illustrs., orig. printed wrappers, 92 items.

London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1978. 4to, 8 plates, orig. printed wrappers. 49 Items described.

Colonial Williamsburg, 1978. . 32pp., illustrs., in the text, orig. printed wrappers.

London: Sotheby's, 2002. 4to, 250pp., numerous coloured illustrs., orig. decorated wrappers, 311 lots.

Leicester: Dryad Handicrafts, [1955]. First Edition, 16pp., 14 illustrs., in the text, orig. printed wrappers.

Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1972. 4to, xii, 89, [3]pp., 61 plates, orig. printed wrappers.

Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1951. First edition, 8pp., 24 illustrs., orig. printed wrappers. The bindings reproduced in this booklet have been chosen to illustrate some of the many styles of gold-tooling current in Europe up to the eighteenth century.

British Museum Publications Ltd. 1974. First Edition, small 4to, 48pp., coloured frontis., 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.

London: HMSO, 1950. First edition, revised, 26, [2]pp., 67 illustrations, orig. decorated wrappers.

Foss: K.D. Duval, 1986. First edition, 4to, 111pp., limited to 500 copies, 81 illustrs., in colour and 22 in black and white, cloth, spine gilt. A catalogue raisonné of nearly all of Elizabeth Greenhill's designed bindings, with illustrations of all that it has been possible to trace.

London: The Library Association, 1985. First Edition, 12 plates, 7 illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth, d.w. This book concentrates on cloth bindings during the period 1820-80, though covers in paper, leather, papier mache etc. are also dealt with.

London: The Private Libraries Association. 1963. 16pp., 32 illustrs., of bindings on 8 plates, orig. printed wrappers. History of the development of the "centre and corner piece" and the "interlacing ribbon" styles of binding.

[London, 1988.]. 8vo, [2], 31-46pp., stampled.

Washington: Library of Congress, 1982. First edition, 4to, x, 296, [2]pp., line illustrs., orig. publishers cloth, light wear but a good copy.

Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1925. First Edition, 4to, 208pp., cloth, gilt, leather label to spine. One of the most important guides to the literature of bookbinding. Indexed by subject and author with 2,691 books completely described.