Paris: Georges Blaizot & Claude Guerin, Juin, 6,1972-18 Juin 1974. One of the greatest sales of the century. Read More about Bibliotheque Raphael Esmerian...in 5 Parts...Avant-propos de M. Jacques Guignard for Part I;Part...
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, 1899. First edition. An attractive example of a modern embroidered binding, on the definitive work on the subject. Read More about English Embroidered Bookbindings
Price: $850
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, 1899. First edition. Read More about English Embroidered Bookbindings
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Paris: Aulard for the Bibliothèque national, 1947. Landmark Exhibition Catalogue. Landmark catalogue of the Society's first exhibition, for which its president André Rodocanachi was mainly responsible, and at which a large number of contemporary bindings were exhibited. Read More about Société de la Reliure Originale. Catalogue de l'exposition. La reliure originale
Price: $2,000
Paris: Jules Bonaventure for the author, 1869-73. Binder's Copy. Read More about Album de Reliures Artistiques & Historiques, accompagné de notes explicatives par le...
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1974. One of 450 copies printed at The Plantin Press. Read More about Four Lectures by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson. Edited, with an Introductory Essay on Cobden-Sanderson's...
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Pittsburgh: Randolph Barnes, Third Street, 1819. Cagle calls this edition the Third American edition, after First American 1818 Philadelphia edition and an 1819 New-Haven edition, originally published in London in 1810. Cagle says it is not by Mrs. Rundell Chapter Vi is on Books: extract grease from leaves of books, method..... Read More about The Family Receipt Book containing Eight Hundred Valuable Receipts in various Branches of...
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Paris et Bruxelles: Les Éditions G. Van Oest, 1930; 1931. First edition. A useful and well illustrated survey of French binding from its origins through the 19th century. Read More about La Reliure Française
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Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes...Cambridge University Press, 1949-1971. Editors changed as the periodical went along. Read More about Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society
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Frenich, Foss: K.D. Duval, 1986. First Edition, one of 500. With Prospectus. Includes essays by John Harthan, Dorothy Harrop, Mirjam Foot & Elizabeth Greenhill herself. Read More about Elizabeth Greenhill Bookbinder. A Catalogue Raisonné
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(London): The British Library, [1982]; 1983; 2010. Second edition of vol. I (one of 250 copies), first editions of vol. II (one of 750) and III. Complete set of Foot's indispensable catalogue of the Henry Davis Gift. Read More about The Henry Davis Gift. A Collection of Bookbindings. Volume I: Studies in the History of...
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Paris: Léon Gruel Relieur d'Art 418, Rue Saint Honoré, 1933. First Edition. #315 of 350 copies sur papier velin d'Arches. Grace Whitney Hoff was born on October 22, 1862, in Detroit, Michigan. She married John Jacob Hoff on April 3rd, 1900, and together they left the United States for France..... Read More about Bibliothèque de Madame G. Whitney Hoff. Catalogue Des Manuscrits, Incunables, Editions Rares,...
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1894. First Edition. Read More about The Binding of Books. An Essay in the History of Gold-Tooled Bindings
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New York: American Art Association, 1932. A landmark sale, with prices realized and, in some cases, buyer (Wells, Rosenbach, Beyer, et al), recorded in the margins. De Ricci, in his Foreword, describes this collection of 35 manuscripts and 135 books as "the most valuable and intersting to be sold by..... Read More about Selections from the Famous Libraries of the Most Hon. the Marquess of Lothian
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Baltimore: Published by the Trustees of The Walters Art Gallery, 1957. First edition. Read More about The History of Bookbinding. 525 - 1950 A.D. An Exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art....
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Paris: Morgand, 1910. Important binding catalogued, listing 378 historic bindings. Compiled by Edouard Rahir. Read More about Livres dans de riches reliures des seizième, dix-septièm et dix-neuvième siècles
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. One of 500 copies. IN DUST JACKET. Read More about Bookbinders and Their Craft
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Stockholm: A.-B. Hasse W. Tullbergs Förlag, 1912, 1913, 1914. First edition, limited to 1,000 and 850 copies for Parts II and III respectively. An important survey of Swedish bookbinding. Each of the three part begins with a brief survey of contemporary European bookbinding followed by a discussion of individual Swedish..... Read More about Svenska Bokband under Nyare Tiden Bidrag till Svenska Bokbinderhistoria. Första Delen 1521-1718....
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London: "The Studio" Ltd, 1914. With articles by Newdigate on British Types, Douglas Cockerell on Fine Binding in England, and articles on fine printing in Germany, France, Austria, Hungary, Sweden, and American. Splendidly illustrated. Read More about The Art of the Book. A Review of Some Recent European and American Work in Typography, Page...
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Paris: Em. Paul, L. Huard & Guillemin, 1893. First edition, number 649 of 550 sur beau papier vélin mécanique. A classic work on early French bookbinding, comprising a history of the bookbinding trade in Paris, a study of the progression of binding styles, and a useful biographical dictionary of binders..... Read More about Les Relieurs Francais (1500-1800). Biographie Critique et Anecdotique Précédée de l'Histoire...
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