A H I S T O RY O F

BOOKBINDING
THE TREVOR LLOYD COLLECTION

A Bibliographical Catalogue
By
Clare A. Marshall
A H I S T O RY O F
BOOKBINDING
THE TREVOR LLOYD COLLECTION
First Edition of the First English Bookbinding Manual
[Item No. 62. The Whole Art of Bookbinding]
A H I S T O RY O F
BOOKBINDING
THE TREVOR LLOYD COLLECTION

A Bibliographical Catalogue
By
Clare A. Marshall

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 FOREWORD

This catalogue represents a lifetime of collecting by Trevor Lloyd, MBE, perhaps the most
prominent British bookbinder. He has been binding and restoring antiquarian books
for notable personages including, his Highness King Charles, David Attenborough, book
collectors, dealers, and private libraries for almost forty years. His knowledge of books and
the materials used in their construction - together with his skills as a craftsman bookbinder -
enabled Trevor to rebind and restore antiquarian books to the exact style of their period and
country of origin.

Though many of the items featured in this catalogue are stunningly rare, the real value of
the collection lies in its scope. These 600 books, pamphlets, prints and broadsides provide
an amazingly comprehensive resource for the study of the history of bookbinding. Most
importantly, they were assembled under the keen eye of a practising binder, who sought out
rare items as much for his own edification as for the desire to fill in the gaps of the collection.

The collection includes numerous early technical manuals which show both the progression
of techniques and machinery during the Industrial Revolution, as well as the struggle those
working in factory binderies had to overcome in order to protect their craft. Technical
libraries and textbooks today play such a large part in the intelligent and progressive
craftsman’s career that it may not be generally appreciated that only a very modest collection
of technical works could be formed by a binder before about 1850. Today, it is impossible to
have more than a slight grasp of the tremendous range of knowledge which has accumulated
from years of research and development. During the latter half of the last century a vast
amount was written on ancient bookbindings as distinct from the wider approach to
the study of bookbinding. Trevor has accumulated works from across the spectrum of
bookbinding research, with a great many unique manuscript works, fabric sample collections
and ephemera.

The majority of these books would now be very difficult to acquire and a library such as this
would be impossible to assemble. This collection not only documents but celebrates the book
and its binding, its history as well as its future.
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EARLY AND IMPORTANT WORKS ON BOOKBINDING

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1.ACTS OF PARLIAMENT, Anno Regni GEORGII III. REGIS Magnae Britanniae,
Franciae, & Hiberniae, DECIMO QUINTO. At the Parliament begun and holden at
Westminster, the Twenty-ninth Day of November, Anno Domini 1774, in the Fifteenth
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, Great
Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c., An Act to Permit the Free
Importations of raw Goat Skins into this Kingdom for a limited Time, Royal coat of arms to
title, woodcut initial,[1] 1195-1196 pp., unbound, 4to, London, by Charles Eyre and William
Straham, 1775

2.ACTS OF PARLIAMENT, Anno Regni GEORGII II. REGIS Magnae Britanniae,

Franciae, & Hiberniae, DUODECIMO,. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster,
the Fourteenth Day of January, Anno Domini 1734, in the Eighth Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Second, by the Grace of God, Great Britain, France, and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c.,An Act to obviate some Doubts which have arisen
upon the Construction of an Act made in the First Year of the Reign of King William and
Queen Mary, intituled, An Act for Explaining Part of an Act made in the First Year of the
Reign of King James the First concerning tanned Leather; and for rendering more effectual
a Clause in the said last mentioned Act, which obliges Curriers to curry Leather; and for
repealing Two Causes in the said last mentioned Act., royal coat of arms to title, woodcut
initial, [1], 483-486 pp., unbound, 4to, London, John Baskett, 1739

In eighteenth-century Europe, leather was a scarce material used in the production of a wide
range of goods, including book binding. The leather industry was considered more important
than the metal craft. The supply of leather was influenced by the national cattle market and
the rate of meat consumption. The difficulty in increasing leather production to meet the
demands of a ‘consumer revolution’ was the subject of theoretical debates and practical
intervention. In Britain, the government attempted to regulate the existing market in order to
satisfy the increasing demand efficiently.

The eighteenth-century debate on leather regulation in Britain can be reconstructed through

the analysis of a long series of petitions, acts and tracts. Their common denominator is a
careful discourse constructed around the importance of leather manufacture within the
wider economy and the role played by local and national authorities in regulating the leather
market. The government was unwilling to regulate the leather market in a strict manner. Its
objective was to raise funds without getting directly involved in a system whose complexity
surpassed control. Import, export and excise duties were partially imposed in accordance
with treasury needs, but also took into consideration the several factors involved in the
production and use of leather.

Although tanners, curriers and leather-dressers were not a cohesive body, they shared similar
positions in the productive chain. It was at this level of production that the government was
willing to intervene, through taxation and the regulation of a so-called ‘intermediate market’.
Tanners, curriers and oil-dressers were highly organised groups and were thus able to
confront political authorities on a wide series of economic issues. Shoemakers, for instance,
appealed to parliament on several occasions asking for protection of their trade on the
grounds that they used leather to satisfy the basic needs of hundreds of thousands of people,

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while coach- or harness makers used it in the production of luxury goods

An act of parliament of 1739 established that shoemakers, leathersellers and curriers could
deal freely in all kinds of leather at any town or market. However, it also confirmed that
different trades could not undertake similar tasks. This decision particularly affected the
shoemaking trade as it changed the rules governing buyers and sellers. This was an attempt
to reduce the quarrelling that was endemic between the different branches of leather
production. [Giorgio Riello: The leather industry in eighteenth-century Britain and France
Nature, production and regulation in eighteenth-century Britain and France: the case of the
leather industry]

1. Act of Parliament, ... to permit the free Importation of raw 2. Act of Parliament, ... to obviate some Doubts which have
Goat Skins into this Kingdom for a Limited Time, 1775. arisen upon the Construction of an Act [...] concerning
tanned Leather, 1739.

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3.A Day at the Bookbinders: A Description of Westleys and Clark’s Bookbinding
Establishment, FIRST EDITION, steel engraved text illustrations by Dalziel, ownership
inscription to front free endpaper, publisher’s printed wrapper, custom slipcase, 12mo,
Vizetelly Brothers, c.1842

4.[A.J. COX & CO.] The Making of the Book; A Sketch of the Book-Binding Art., FIRST
EDITION, photogravure frontispiece, publishers cloth, top board superbly illustrated in black
and gilt, 12mo, Chicago, A.J Cox and Company, 1878.

During the second half of the nineteenth century, the Cox bindery was the largest in the
Midwest. Housed in Chicago’s famous publishing emporium - the Lakeside Building - the
firm bound books for R. R. Donnelley and the Chicago Public Library. It describes the
different kinds of binding done by the firm and includes a forty-page price list for different
binding sizes and styles, thereby providing first-hand documentation for hundreds of binding
variations.

5.ALESSIO, PIEMONTESE (ALEXIS OF PIEDMONT); RUSCELLI, GIROLAMO,

Les secrets du seigneur Alexis Piemontois Revue, & augmente d’une infinite de rares secrets,
650, [lxxxi]pp., woodcut illustrations throughout, contemporary mottled calf, joints cracked,
spine gilt though bottom section missing, 8vo, Rouen, Martin de la Motte, 1642.

EXTREMELY RARE. First published in 1555, this “book of secrets” was phenomenally
popular, going through 266 editions and was translated into six languages. It contains a wide
range of recipes and instructions, including formulae for making medicine, cosmetics, ink,
dyes, metals, perfume, pigments, paper, and much more. The author’s empirical approach
to science as a hunt for the secrets of nature was an important innovation in the writing
of natural philosophy. The work pervaded experimental science during the period of the
Scientific Revolution. According to Thorndike, “publication of the literature of secrets,
medicinal and otherwise, received a great impulse from the appearance… of the Secrets of
Alessio of Piedmont.” Ferguson Bibliotheca Chemica I, pp.22-23

Although this text is by no means anonymous, this is the only known work by “Alexis
of Piedmont”, and it is now generally accepted that Girolamo Ruscelli (1500-1566), an
important humanist, wrote the secrets under this pseudonym. Ruscelli reported that the
Secreti contained the experimental results of an ‘Academy of Secrets’ that and a group of
humanists and noblemen founded in Naples in the 1540s. Ruscelli’s academy is the first
recorded example of an experimental scientific society.

[Thorndike VI. 215-216, Ferguson Books of Secrets III, Pollard and Potter 104]

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3. A Day at the Bookbinders, c.1843 5. Les secrets du seigneur Alexis Piemon-
tois Revue, & augmente d’une infinite de
rares secrets, 1642

4.[A.J. COX & CO.] The Making of the Book; A Sketch of the Book-Binding
Art., 1878

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6.A New Universal History of Arts and Sciences, Shewing Their Origin, Progress,
Theory, Use and Practice, and Exhibiting the Invention, Structure, Improvement, and
Uses, Of the most considerable Instruments, Engines, and Machines, with their Nature,
Power, and Operation…, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, copper engraved frontispiece, titles in red
and black, 51 copper plates (many folding), woodcut device to title, contemporary full calf,
rebacked, 4to, London, for J. Coote, 1759

Scarce first edition of this extensive work. Arranged alphabetically, A New Universal History
covers all areas of art and science with a focus on technology. There are pages on bookbinding
(vol. 1, pp.302-304), and instructions on how to gild the leaves of books (Vol. 2, p.26). The
explanations are detailed, containing the etymology of the term, classification, mentioned by
ancient and later authors and an explanation of how it works. [Pollard and Potter, 80]

7. Anweisung zur Buchbinderkunst, darinnen alle Handarbeiten, die sur Dauer und
Zierd eines Buchesgereichen, möglichst beschreiben, nebst einemUnterricht Futterale
und aus Pappe verscheidene Sachen zu verfertigen, solche zu lacquiren, in Messing und
Kupfer zu lothen, die versertigte Arbeit in Feuer versilbern und zu vergolden, mit gehorigen
Kupfern in zwey Thiele verfasset,

FIRST EDITION, 2 parts in one vol, (xvi) +269+1pp, 128+(xiv)pp, 7 engraved plates,
engraved vignette to title, age related light toning throughout, half calf over marbled boards,
title on spine in gilt, 12mo, Leipzig, Joh. Sam. Heinsii Erben, 1762

UNIQUE COPY WITH ABOUT 80 MOUNTED IMPRESSIONS OF

BOOKBINDER’S STAMPS

A rare and very early craft manual for the bookbinder. As stated by Esther Potter: “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” - Early Bookbinding Manuals. The first
technical manuals to be printed were in German. This work is among this earliest group. The
present copy is of exceptional interest in that an early owner of the 18th century has added
on 3 leaves (5 pages) a collection of 83 paper impressions of stamps and rolls of binders
finishing tools. These are individual specimens, each cut out and mounted. Also of interest,
and unique to this copy, is a tipped in leaf in contemporary handwriting with a formula for
yellow varnish. [Pollard and Potter, 25]

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7. Anweisung zur Buchbinderkunst, 1762

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8.BAXTER, JOHN, The Sister Arts, or A Concise and Interesting View of the Nature
and History of Paper-Making, Printing and Bookbinding: Being designed to unite
Entertainment with Information concerning those Arts, with which the Cause of Literature
is peculiarly connected. Steel engraved frontispiece and 2 plates, London, J. Baxter, 1809
[bound with] [MARTIN, G.] The Bookbinder’s Complete Instructor In All the Branches of
Binding; Particularly Marbling, Staining, and Gilding the Covers and Edges of Books, with
all the late improvements and discoveries in That Useful Art, 40.pp, Peterhead, P. Buchan,
1823 [bound with] Books for the Young: No. 1. Writing - Paper-Making - Printing - Books -
Types, 112pp., London, John Cassell, 1850, 12mo, red morocco, ruled in gilt, t.e.g., spine gilt.

An interesting sammelband of three works on the processes that go into constructing a book,
from paper to binding.

The first work, The Sister Arts, by John Baxter, covers bookbinding from pp/94-104. The
three plates each show one of the trades described.

John Baxter (1781-1858) was in business as printer, bookbinder, and bookseller throughout
the first half of the nineteenth century, and published a number of topographical works. He
introduced several innovations in printing machinery; his second son was George Baxter, the
inventor of oil colour printing.

The second work, The Bookbinder’s Complete Instructor by G. Martin, originally formed a
chapter in Thomas Martin’s The Circle of the Mechanical Arts, published in 1813 (See No.
43). There are no illustrations, but the text does give detailed descriptions of forwarding and
tooling techniques. The sections on the colouring of book edges and the marbling of covers
were lifted from The Whole Art of Bookbinding (1818) (No. 62)

[Pollard and Potter, 88, 97 Middleton, 13]

9. Bookbinding At Home, A Practical Treatise on Bookbinding, 14pp., original printed

wrapper, wrapper loose, central vertical fold line, 12mo, Plymouth, S.B. McCallum, n.d.

10. Book Construction, FIRST EDITION, ex-library with usual stamps, contemporary
green morocco backed boards, 8vo, London, by the Library Association, 1931

11.BRAY, DIRK DE, A Short Introduction in the Binding of Books, Followed by a note on
the gilding of the edges by Ambrosius Vermerck. With an introduction and a paraphrase
by K van der Horst and C. de Wolf. Translated by H.S.Lake. FIRST EDITION, 2 vol. In
original publishers case, colour facsimile of this bookbinder’s manual, 48 ff., including 17
watercolours, (95 x 78mm), written in Dutch, the English translation and commentaries form
a booklet of lxxxvipp.(170 x110mm), Amsterdam, Nico Israel, 1977

Dated 1658, it is the oldest treatise of this kind; the details are remarkably precise, the
watercolours represent the various tools, the presses, the gestures of the worker and
workshop scenes. Rare document, not put on the market and offered by Israel to his
customers and friends in 1977.

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8. BAXTER, JOHN, The Sister Arts, 1809 [with] MARTIN, G.,
The Bookbinder’s Complete Instructor, 1823

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12.CHAMBERS, E., Cyclopedia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences;
Containing the Definitions of the Terms, and Accounts of the Things signify’d thereby, in the
Several Arts, Both Liberal and Mechanical, And the several Sciences, Human and Divine…,
2 vol., FIRST EDITION, [2], XX, [2], 184, 74-368, 161-380, 1-282pp; 365-1038, 1-392pp.,
engraved folding frontispiece, 18 engraved plates, 7 folding, woodcut text illustrations, title
in red and black, bookplate to title verso, ex-libris of William Sedgewick, contemporary calf,
lacking spine, boards loose, folio, London, for James and John Knapton et al, 1728

VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION

This work contains the first comprehensive description of bookbinding in English and is
essentially a translation from Savary des Bruslons ‘Dictionnaire universal de commerce’,
1723.

This work was considerably revised in later editions and copied or adapted in many
subsequent encyclopaedias for nearly a century. Citing Walsh (535): “Although the
Cyclopaedia is now but a landmark in the history of encyclopaedia publishing, its impact
and influence upon later generations was incalculable. It directly influenced the famous
French Encyclopedia of Diderot, and the New Encyclopaedia compiled by Abraham Rees and
published between 1802 and 1820.”

[Alston III, 541; Walsh, 535; Pollard and Potter, 70]

12. CHAMBERS, E., Cyclopaedia: Or, An Universal

Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 1728

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13. CHIRM, SILVANUS, Advertisement leaves for School Books in Chirm’s Binding, 2
leaves, margins trimmed, London, 1776

FIRST AND EARLIEST DESCRIPTION OF THIS METHOD OF BOOKBINDING.

INCREDIBLY SCARCE.

A two-leaf pamphlet outlining a method of binding school books using bands on the spine to
make the books more robust. The leaflet describes punched or stabbed bindings as unsuitable
for schools. ‘To remedy this evil a method is now adopted, of binding these books…upon
bands’. . It also contains the names of twenty-three schoolmasters who give their approbation
to this method of binding. Copies of the leaflet were inserted into books bound to conform
with it. [Pollard and Potter, 84]

13. CHIRM, SILVANUS, Advertisement leaves for School

Books in Chirms Binding, 1776.

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14. [COWIE, GEORGE] The Bookbinder’s Manual: Containing A Full Description of
Leather and Vellum Binding; Also, Directions for Gilding of Paper and Book-Edges; and
Numerous Valuable Recipes for Sprinkling, Colouring, and Marbling…, contemporary
ownership inscription to pastedown, light toning, contemporary half blue calf over marbled
boards, spine gilt and blind tooled, boards rubbed, 12mo, London, Cowie and Strange, 1829

This is the second edition of the fifth bookbinding manual to be published in Britain, the first
(undated) edition having been issued in 1828. Although always referred to as ‘Cowie’s’, the
actual authorship is unknown, but it is clear it was written by a practising craftsman. All the
known editions were printed from the same stereotype plates, except for the list of binders,
etc. at the end. 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.

George Cowie, who also printed and published in partnership with William Strange Cowie’s
printers’ pocket book and manual, worked as a printer from 1822 at various addresses. He
and William Strange were in partnership from 1822 as printers, booksellers and from 1828,
as publishers. [Middleton, 14; Pollard and Potter, 98]

15. CRANE, W.J.E., Bookbinding for Amateurs: Being Descriptions of the Various Tools
and Appliances Required and Minute Instructions for their Effective Use, FIRST EDITION,
text illustrated, ink stamp to text tail, contemporary ownership inscription to front free
endpaper, publishers green cloth, decorated in black and gilt, 8vo, London, L. Upcott, [1900]

16. CRANE, W.J.E., Bookbinding for Amateurs: Being Descriptions of the Various Tools
and Appliances Required and Minute Instructions for their Effective Use, text illustrations,
marginal toning throughout, publishes cloth, elaborately blind tooled, 8vo, London, L.
Upcott, 1903

17. CROKER, TEMPLE HENRY & WILLIAMS, THOMAS & CLARK, SAMUEL, The
Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, in Which the Whole Circle of Human Learning is
Explained, 3 vol., engraved frontispiece, 150 engraved plates, list of subscribers, occasional
light foxing, ex library, rubber library stamp on plates verso, damp staining to head of text
block vol 2., half calf over marbled boards, rebound, later end papers, folio, London, for the
Authors, 1766-1768-1769

This work includes sections on bookbinding, gilding, marbling, and a description of the
bookbinder’s lying press and plough. It was largely based on Chamber’s ‘Cyclopedia’ (no. 12)
and listed in the Encyclopedia Britannica as one of its sources. [Pollard and Potter, 81]

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14. [COWIE, GEORGE], The Bookbinder’s Manual,
1829

17. CROKER, TEMPLE HENRY [et al.], The Complete

Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 1766-1769

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18. [DARTON,WIILLIAM] Little Jack of All Trades, Parts I & II [all published], each
with engraved title-vignette and 22 illustrations, lightly browned, a few stains, a few creases,
original printed wrappers, soiled and stained, rubbed, 12mo, Darton and Harvey, 1809-12.

The trades were a popular subject – what people did and how things were made were
described and illustrated with woodcuts, bringing these occupations to life for the young
reader.

Charming work depicting tradesmen and craftsmen including printer, blacksmith, hatter,
cabinet-maker, mason, boat-builder, book-binder, paper-maker, charcoal-burner, auctioneer,
iron-founder, barber, engraver, tambour-worker, shot-master and clock-maker.

William Darton (1755 – 1819) was an engraver, stationer and printer in London and with
partner Joseph Harvey (1764 – 1841) published books for children and religious tracts. His
sons Samuel and William Darton were later active in the business. Darton and Harvey’s
books for children always contain plentiful illustrations and, while stylised, are packed with
details of clothes, buildings and interiors, conveying a powerful sense of working life in the
early 19th century.

19. [DARTON, WILLIAM] Little Jack of All Trades; or, Mechanical Arts Described, in
Prose and Verse, Suited to the Capacities of Children, engraved frontispiece, 11 engraved
plates, contemporary half red calf over marbled boards, 12mo, London, Harvey and Darton,
1823

20. DODD, GEORGE, Days at the Factories; or, The Manufacturing Industry of Great
Britain Described, and Illustrated by Numerous Engravings of Machines and Processes,
FIRST EDITION, 25 wood engraved plates, 2 folding, text illustrations, publishers brown
cloth, device in gilt, a.e.g., boards rubbed, 8vo, London, Charles Knight, 1843

An interesting insight to working life during the Industrial Revolution, and more specifically
on the industrialization and methods of mass production within the bookbinding trade.

Dodd describes the factory bindery of Mssrs. Westley’s and Clark’s: ‘it is a large pile, built
expressly for its purposes, and presenting much the same appearance of a cotton factory.’

The Westley and Clark bindery was on six floors, ‘each floor of the building in general
appropriated to one class of operations, under the superintendance of a foreman.’ In the
basement were the machines for board cutting, cloth embossing and stamping. The second
floor contained the cloth board bindery where the new cheap books were made. Also to be
found here were the forwarders and finishers and the women who did the sewing. On the
third floor was the ‘roan shop’ (roan is a thin sheepskin, embossed with a morocco-like grain,
and had been used for the covering of cheaper books since the 18th century). The new leather
splitting machine enabled skins to be pared very thin for the covers of these cheap bindings.
The style was in decline, however Dodd says “such books are assuming the neat gilt-lettered
cloth covers of modern times, in place of the nankeen roan of previous years.”

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On the fourth floor the ‘extra’ (fine) work was done: bibles, bindings of ‘russia’, morocco and
calf, as well as the men and women who folded, sewed and finished them. The upper two
floors were devoted to sundry activities: blocking, case binding, Caoutchouc binding, edge
gilding and the leather store.

By the 1840s the factory bindery was firmly established.

[Factory Manoeuvres Trade Binding and Labour in London: 1780-1850 - Dominic Riley
and John DeMerritt, volume 18, Bookbinder]

Left: 18. [DARTON, WILLIAM], Little Jack of All Trades,

1809-12.
Right: 20. DODD, GEORGE, Days at the Factories, 1843

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21. [DOSSIE, ROBERT] The Handmaid to the Arts…, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION,
contemporary ownership note to title head, 1pp. Ads at rear, occasional light foxing,
contemporary calf, vol. 1 corners and spine worn, vol. 2 rebacked, 8vo, London, J. Nourse,
1758

An in-depth work on the arts, discussing various mediums and techniques. A compendium
on art, advising the reader on many types of artistic forms, with concise, educational, and
useful descriptions. Discussing colours, compounding, pastels, painting, varnishing, mending
pictures, glass, map-making, mezzotinto prints, gilding, japanning, and more. This is the first
account in English of the making of Dutch gilt paper. The article on marbled paper is also
detailed, and is exactly reprinted in Cowie’s Bookbinder’s Manual (No. 14).

Although this book was published anonymously, it is attributed to Robert Dossie. Dossie,
an English apothecary and chemist, known for his successful experimental chemistry and
pharmacy works, such as ‘The Elaboratory Laid Open’ and ‘Theory and Practice of Chirurgical
Pharmacy’.

[Pollard and Potter, 79]

22. DUDIN, RENE MARTIN, Art du Relieur, nouvelle edition, augmentee de tout ce
qui a ete ecrit de mieux sur ces matieres en Allemagne, en Angleterre, en Suisse, en Italie,
etc. 110pp 2 engraved plates, old light circular stain in upper blank margin of title, dark red
morocco backed marbled boards, spine gilt, 4to, Paris, J. Mornonvl, 1820.

LEON GRUEL’S COPY

Originally published as part of the Description des Arts et Metiers (1761-1788); the section
by Dudin was first published as a separate volume with the title L’art du relieur-doreur des
livres in 1772. Although this manual was not the first to be illustrated, it was the first to have
large detailed plates which could be helpful not only to those learning binding techniques
but also to those who planned to make standing - and other presses. The two engraved plates
illustrate 42 separate illustrations of the details of bookbinding including several illustrations
of decorated covers and spines.Dudin based his text on earlier descriptions by Jaugeon
and Gauffecourt, and the plates were prepared by Louis Simonneau. As a layman, Dudin
depended heavily on the advice of France’s foremost bookbinder of the period, Jean Charles
Henri le Monnier. Monnier even arranged for him to watch books being bound.

The general coverage of operations is good, and reasons are given for the various methods
described, a virtue which has not been a strong feature in English manuals until fairly
recently. This new edition is furnished with footnotes by J.E. Bertrand which are sometimes
quite extensive. All separate editions are rare. A translation into English by Richard
MacIntyre Atkinson was published in 1977.

This copy belonged to and was presumably bound by the celebrated Parisian bookbinder,
bibliophile, collector and scholar Leon Gruel (1841-1923); it bears his bookplate. It was
subsequently in the library of Pierre Beres. [Pollard 45, Middleton 4]

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21. [DOSSIE, ROBERT] The Handmaid to the Arts,
1758

22. DUDIN, RENE MARTIN, Art du Relieur, 1820

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23. FINISHER’S FRIENDLY ASSOCIATION. The Book Finisher’s Friendly Circular,
conducted by a Committee of the Finisher’s Friendly Association. Complete with 19 issues
plus title, index, 14 page supplement and six page rule book dated 1845, in one vol., nine
illustrations, iv, 166, [8]pp., later black morocco, rebacked, rule book wrapper preserved,
12mo, London, printed for the Association, [August 1845-September 1851]

The Book Finisher’s Circular was produced by one of the first associations which led to trade
unionism. The work contains very valuable information on the early development of the
London bookbinder’s trade union.

Devoted to union matters, historical and current, rhymes for finishers, information about,
and illustrations of, historical styles of cover decorations, trade gossip, and exhibitions were
also printed.

Also bound in is the extremely scarce ‘Rules of the Finishers’ Friendly Association, 1845. The
rule book is in its original wrapper, and contains all the rules and regulations a member must
adhere to.

Two important works in both the history of book binding and trade unionism.

[Middleton, 21.]

24. FRANCIS, G.,The Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures, engraved title,
illustrated text, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, boards slightly rubbed, 8vo,
London, W. Brittain, 1842

25. FRED ULLMER, Revised and Enlarged Illustrated Price List of New Machinery
and Materials for Printers, Bookbinders and Rulers, Lithographers, Die-Stampers,
Stereotypers…, 452pp., illustrated catalogue of machinery and bookbinding equipment,
original printed cloth, hinges cracked, covers trimmed, 8vo, London, [1913]

26. [GRIFFIN, RICHARD, publisher], The Book of Trades or Circle of the Useful Arts,
steel engraved frontispiece and second title, 20 engraved plates (1 extra), text illustrations,
ownership inscription on pastedown, published cloth, blind tooled, spine gilt, 12mo, Glasgow,
Richard Griffin, 1836

A popular work covering various trades in concise detail. Interestingly, in the bookbinding
section there is reference to the use of ‘cloth, especially silk and cotton’, in place of leather.
[Pollard and Potter, 99]

27. HASLAM, W., The Book of Trade Secrets: Receipts and Instructions for Renovating,
Repairing, Improving and Preserving Old Books and Prints by An Expert, FIRST EDITION,
advertisements at rear, ex-libris, rubber stamp to half title, rebound, cloth backed decorative
boards, new endpapers, 8vo, London, J. Haslam, 1909

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Left: 23. FINISHER’S FRIENDLY ASSOCIATION, The Book
Finisher’s Friendly Circular..., 1845-51
Right: 26. [GRIFFIN, RICHARD], The Book of Trades or
Circle of the Useful Arts, 1836.

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28. [HANETT, JOHN], PSEUD. ARNETT, JOHN ANDREWS, Bibliopegia; or, the Art
of Bookbinding, in All its Branches, 9 steel engraved plates (including frontispiece), slight
spotting throughout, publishers decorative cloth, rebacked, original spine laid on, 12mo,
London, Richard Groombridge, 1835

This was the sixth bookbinding manual to be published in England. Although this volume
lacks the interesting trade lists and tables contained in Cowie’s manual of 1829 (No. 14), it
is the more significant, and it is interestingly illustrated. It was published at a time of many
changes in the structure of the trade which were brought about by the introduction of new
techniques and equipment, which in turn resulted from the rapid evolution of industry and
society in general.

Bibliopegia was the first English manual to carry illustrations of equipment, the frontispiece
depicting the machine that led to one of the most significant changes in trade binding in
the 19th century; the Imperial Arming Press. “The invention of the blocking machine in
the 1830s made stamping into the cloth casing possible - the first blocked title appeared in
1832.” (No.516) is an example of this first blocked title). The making of the cases became an
operation of mass-production, and also of cost-reduction.

“The effect of the new regime on working practices and conditions, and the bindings
themselves, was profound. The development of the case binding market created within
the bookbinderies a new class of work and a recomposition of labour, the skilled job of

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forwarding in leather becoming marginalised in favour of the segregated mass-production
of the simply constructed cloth cases.” - Factory Manouvers Trade Binding and Labour in
London: 1780-1850 - Dominic Riley and John DeMerritt.

It is interesting to note that Arnett, an intelligent man of integrity and kindly disposition,
appears to accept current practices without question, as did almost everyone else, at least in
public. Changes were rapid and commercial pressures were very strong, so it was likely to be
hazardous to demur, and it should be noted that Arnett was working for a large publisher at
this time.

The illustrations and fairly detailed descriptions of techniques makes this work a useful
source of information about early nineteenth-century binding practices. It was reprinted
several times, including in 1980, with an introduction by Bernard C. Middleton.

[Bookbinder Vol. 19 Dominic Riley and John DeMerritt; Middleton, 17]

29.HANNETT, JOHN, Bibliopegia; or, the Art of Bookbinding, steel engraved frontispiece,
24 steel engraved plates, text illustrations, library plates to paste down and front free
endpaper, library stamp to title and plates verso, publishers cloth, 8vo, London, Simpkin,
Marshall and Co., 1848

This is the fourth edition of Bibliopegia, published under the author’s true name, John
Hannett, and also printed by him. This work incorporated The bookbinder’s school of design,
first published in 1837.

John Hannett (1803-93) after being apprenticed to a printer and bookbinder in Sleaford,
Lincs., worked for ten years in the publishing house of Simpkin, Marshall and co., then set up
as a printer and bookbinder at Market Rasen, in 1837, and, in 1844, at Henley-in-Arden. The
first editions of his books were published under the pseudonym John Andres Arnett. [Pollard
and Potter, 100]

30. HANNETT, JOHN, Bibliopegia; or, the Art of Bookbinding, steel engraved
frontispiece, text illustrations, publishers decorative cloth, text block sound, 12mo, London,
Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1865

31. HANNETT, JOHN, Bibliopegia; or, the Art of Bookbinding, steel engraved frontispiece,
24 steel engraved plates, text illustrations, worm tracks, contemporary calf, boards double
ruled in gilt, spine gilt, green morocco label, a.e.r., binders label [Daily Press Office, Hong
Kong], 12mo, London, Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1865

The sixth edition of this worked combined the two parts of the 1837 edition, with John
Hannett’s history of bookbinding, which had been first published in 1837 with the title An
inquiry into the nature and form of the books of the ancients; with a history from the times
of the Greeks and Romans to the present day. This formed the basis of A history of the art
of bookbinding, with some account of the books of the ancients, edited by W.S. Brassington,
London, 1894, which contains a memoir of John Hannett. The first American manual, James

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B. Nicholson’s Manual of the art of bookbinding, Philadelphia, 1856 was also based on it.
[Pollard and Potter, 100].

32.HASLAM, W., The Library Handbook of Genuine Trade Secrets and Instructions for
Cleaning, Repairing and Restoring Old Manuscripts, Engravings and Books, as Practised
by the Experts, FIRST EDITION, original printed wrappers, London, W. & G. Foyle, [1923]

33. HEBERT, LUKE, The Engineer’s and Mechanic’s Encyclopedia, Comprehending

Practical Illustrations of the Machinery and Processes Employed in Every Description of
Manufacture of the British Empire, 2 vol., engraved frontispiece, text illustrations, Vol. 1 in
cloth, vol. 2 half calf backed boards, spine worn and boards rubbed, 8vo, London, Thomas
Kelly, 1837

Part of the Books about Books Series edited by Pollard.

34. HICKOK, W. O., Hickock Bookbinders’ Machinery Bookbinders Tools, Catalogue No.
88, 40pp., illustrated catalogue, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, [1920]

35. HICKOK, W. O., Hickock Bookbinders’ Machinery Bookbinders Tools, Catalogue No.
93, 44pp., illustrated catalogue, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, [c.1940s]

36. HOOLE MACHINE AND ENGRAVING WORKS, Catalogue No. 79. Paging,
Numbering, End Name Printing, Bookbinders’ Tools and Machinery, ii, 49pp., line drawn
and halftone illustrations throughout, first two leaves slightly defective from small clippings
having been removed, printed wrappers, small 8vo, Brooklyn, a scare work.

37. HUGHES & KIMBER, Catalogue of Machinery & Materials for Bookbinders, Paper
Rulers &c., viii, 72pp., black and red within a green rule frame, double-spread engraving of
the principal workshop at the Britannia Iron Works, two illustrations have a new illustration
tipped over them showing the later model, original cloth, 4to, London, [c.1880]

38. KLEECK, MARY VAN, Women in the Bookbinding Trade, FIRST EDITION, xx, 270p.
+2p publishers ads., frontispiece, illustrations and tables, ex-library copy entirely free of
rubber-stamps, original cloth, gilt lettered, 8vo, New York, Survey Associates, 1913

This work is the results of the first investigation made by the Committee on Women’s Work
of the Russell Sage Foundation, part of a series of studies of the condition of women’s work
in important trades in New York City that demonstrate similar conditions throughout the
United States. The bookbinding trade, one of the most important trades for women in the
city at the time, is examined in detail. These findings were relevant to many other industries
because it presented most of the important problems which confronted women wage-earners
at the time.

Mary van Kleeck, a notable figure in the American labour movement, was secretary of
the Committee on Women’s Work at the Russell Sage Foundation. During World War I,
van Kleeck was appointed by US President Wilson to lead the development of workplace

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standards for women entering the workforce, becoming the first woman appointed to a
position of authority in the American federal government. After the war, she led the creation
of a federal agency to advocate for women in the workforce, before returning to the Sage
Foundation and continuing her determined research into labour issues.

39. KNIGHT, EDWARD H., Knight’s Mechanical Dictionary, 4 vol., numerous plates,
some folding, text illustrations, contemporary half calf over boards, 8vo, New York, J. B. Ford
and Company, [1874-76]

Includes scarce supplementary volume.

Knight was a mechanical expert who worked in the patent office in Cincinnati, US. He also
organised the classification of inventions. He was a member of the international juries
at the World’s Fairs in Philadelphia and Atlanta, was United States commissioner to the
World’s Fair in Paris in 1878, and was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French
government in recognition for his services at the last-named fair.

Left: 38. KLEECK, MARY VAN, Women in the Bookbinding

Trade, 1913.
Right: 39. KNIGHT, EDWARD H., Knight’s Mechanical
Dictionary, 1874-76.

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40. MADSEN, ROY, Book Binding, text neatly typewritten on Strathmore Artist paper,
[108]pp., 14 mounted illustrations on paper of various colours, many hand painted or
illustrated in various colours of pencil, light pencil notes in margins possibly by the author,
decorative brown and tan linen, lavender endpapers, 8vo, n.p., n.d. [c.1970]

A UNIQUE HANDMADE GUIDE

There is no limitation given, and this book may well be unique. It contains the following
chapters: “The Materials for Bookbinding”, “The Equipment for Bookbinding”, “The First
Step”, “The Second Step, End and Flyleafs”, “The Third Step, First and Last Partitions”, “The
Fourth Step, Sewing”, “The Fifth Step, Glueing”, “The Sixth Step, Backing”, “The Seventh
Step, Cutting Covers,”, “The Eighth Step, Covering the Book.”

Nothing is known about the author or publisher of this fascinating work.

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41. MATTEWS, WAILLIAM F., Bookbinding, A Manual for those interested in the Craft
of Bookbinding, illustrated frontispiece, 7 plates, text illustrations, publishers blue cloth, 8vo,
New York, E.P. Dutton.

42. MATTEWS, WAILLIAM F., Bookbinding, A Manual for those interested in the Craft
of Bookbinding, illustrated frontispiece, 7 plates, text illustrations, publishers black cloth,
8vo, London, Victor Gollancz, 1929.

43. MARTIN, THOMAS [PSEUD. JOHN FAREY], The Circle of Mechanical Arts;
Containing Practical Treatise on the Various Manual Arts, Trades and Manufactures,
FIRST EDITION, (ii), viii, 616pp., 45 engraved plates, text illustrations, large copy, later blue
morocco, spine and boards elaborately gilt, 4to, London, for Richard Rees, 1813.

A fascinating and detailed early nineteenth-century collection of treatises about mechanical

arts and trade; it contains substantial and detailed entries on many subjects which are
otherwise inaccessible, especially in English. This was the first work of its kind in Great
Britain, providing a comprehensive account of these trades in the early nineteenth-century. A
very popular book among its contemporaries, with at least 5 editions.

The chapter on bookbinding is “the first English book to give a really detailed account of the
forwarding process and gold tooling.” It also describes the tools and equipment used. The
text of this chapter was subsequently published separately in 1823, as “The bookbinder’s
complete instructor”.Written and edited by John Farey (1791-1851), a civil engineer, assisted
by professional mechanics and experts in the various trades.The scarce first edition of this
work. [Pollard & Potter, 90]

43. MARTIN, THOMAS, The Circle of Mechanical

Arts, 1813

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44. MASON, JOHN, A Practical Course in Bookcrafts and Bookbinding, FIRST EDITION,
illustrated frontispiece, title in red and black, text illustrations, decorative marbled cloth, 8vo,
London, B.T. Batsford, 1935

45. MASON, JOHN, A Practical Course in Bookcrafts and Bookbinding, illustrated

frontispiece, title in red and black, text illustrations, decorative marbled cloth, 8vo, Leicester,
C.H. Gee & Co., n.d., 1935

46. MAY, ARNOLD, Manuscript Workbook of a Bookbinding Apprentice, 79pp., written

in neat hand in black, blue and red ink, ink illustrations on facing pages of text, original cloth
boards, 4to, Stockport, 1945-47

Contains notes and instructions on many subjects including; materials used in finishing,
lettering styles, different styles of rolling borders, different morocco styles, different calf
styles, working patterns for floral drop gilt backs, tooling a design on calf, morocco and
vellum, and more. A unique set of instructions.

47. PARRY, HENRY,The Art of Bookbinding: Containing a Description of the Tools,

Forwarding, Gilding and Finishing, Stationary Binding, Edge-Colouring, Marbling,
Sprinkling…, FIRST and ONLY EDITION, wood engraved frontispiece, title vignette,
contemporary price list on flyleaf, later half calf over contemporary boards, rebacked, boards
rubbed, 12mo, London, Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1818.

First and only edition of the second English book devoted wholly to bookbinding. It is given
a good note by Pollard & Potter: “It seems likely that [the author] was the same Henry Parry
to whom the Oswestry book of 1811 was registered, though the 1818 manual is substantially a
different book. It contains a much more adequate description of the forwarding process; and,
while the recipes for colouring edges and sprinkling leather come largely from the Oswestry
book, they do not follow its wording as closely as do The circle of the mechanical arts 1813,
and Cowie’s bookbinders’ manual 1828, which also base these sections on the Oswestry book.
All four have independent descriptions of how to construct a book.” (Early bookbinding
manuals 93).

The frontispiece provides the first illustration in an English binding manual;, and there
were no others until the publication of Arnett’s Bibliopegia in 1835 (No. 28). The illustration
represents a ledger with a recently introduced spring-back (the purpose of which is to force
the spine of the blank book to spring up so that the leaves lie flat and facilitate writing).
Which in Parry’s book is termed ‘elastic back’.

Very rare.

[Pollard and Potter 93, Middleton 11]

48. PEARCE, W. B., Marshall’s Practical Manuals No.7. Practical Bookbinding, FIRST
EDITION, illustrated frontispiece, numerous text illustrations, ads present, publishers
decorative wrapper, 8vo, London, Percival Marshall, c.1915

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 46. MAY, ARNOLD, Manuscript Workbook of a
Bookbinding Apprentice, 1945-47

47. PARRY, HENRY, The Art of Bookbinding, 1818

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49. PEARCE, W. B., Marshall’s Practical Manuals No.7. Practical Bookbinding, illustrated
frontispiece, numerous text illustrations, ads present, publishers decorative wrapper, 8vo,
London, Percival Marshall, c.1930

50. SMITH, G., The Laboratory; or, School of Arts: Containing A Large Collection of
Valuable Secrets, Experiments, and Manual Operations in Arts and Manufactures…, 2
vol., sixth edition, 40 plates, most folding, some off setting and occasional foxing, publishers
buckram, boards slightly rubbed, 8vo, London, C. Whittingham, 1799

A well illustrated practical survey of the useful arts and technology, by Godfrey Smith.
It provides an informative guide to the eighteenth century practice in the fields of metal
refining, assaying, alloying and casting, jeweller’s work, bookbinding, glass and colour
making, and dyeing textiles. Of particular interest is the section, Of Artificial Fire-Works.

First published in 1738, revised editions appeared until 1799, with a second volume in 1756.
This compendium of artists’ secrets was largely based on unnamed German sources, and
continually expanded over subsequent editions. Smith states in his preface that ‘as to the
truth of the experiments, I must own, that had my fortune answer’d by inclination, I would
have carefully examin’d most of ‘em before-hand: but as that was not the case, I shall leave it
to those Gentlemen, whose purses may be equal to the task, to satisfy their curiosity’.

[Pollard and Potter, 73]

51. SMITH, JAMES, The Mechanic, or, Compendium of Practical Inventions…, 2 vols.,
viii, 496; x, 1-420, [*421-428], 421-470, [2]pp., copper engraved frontispiece and 106
plates (some folding), plates LXXIV and LXXV repeated, woodcut device to title, occasional
light spotting, small library stamps of the Furstliche Furstenbergische Hofbliothek at
Donaueschingen to title and final leaf versos in each vol., cloth backed publisher’s boards
with original printed labels on spines, spines worn, 8vo, London, Henry Fisher, Caxton Press,
1825.

First published at Liverpool in 1816, James Smith’s Mechanic provides detailed accounts of
numerous important technological advances made during the industrial revolution.

The section of Manufacture and Trade includes a section on the Bookbinder’s Cutting Press
with one Screw. This is a development of the wooden two screw press, but requires the binder
to only tighten and loosen one central iron screw rather than align two wooden screws.

There was several developments in mining techniques and engineering, as well as a

number of timekeeping instruments; while the ‘Philosophical Instruments’ section provides
interesting accounts of the grinding of lenses and manufacture of telescopes.

52. SPON, ERNEST, Workshop Receipts for the Use of Manufactures, Mechanics and
Scientific Amateurs, 5 vol., mixed editions, text illustrations, original publishers decorative
cloth, 8vo, London, E and F. N. Spon, 1895-1897

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53. STEPHEN, G. A., Machine Book-Sewing With Remarks on Publishers’ Binding,
2 plates, rebound in green cloth, new endpapers, original wrapper preserved, 4to, The
Aberdeen University Press Limited, 1908

54. STEPHEN, G.A., Commercial Bookbinding A Description of the Processes and the
Various Machines Used, numerous engraved text illustrations, ex-libris, rubber stamps to
title, publishers cloth, 4to, London, W. John Stonhill and Co., 1910

51. SMITH, JAMES, The Mechanic, or Compendium

of Practical Inventions, 1825.

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55. THE MAGAZINE OF SCIENCE, AND SCHOOL OF ARTS, [Binding Equipment],
[1],290-296pp., wood engraved illustrations, 8vo, disbound, December 1842

A full page wood engraving of a Sherwin and Cope Arming Press, followed by an in depth
description of its use and description. The Imperial Arming Press, patented in 1832, was
designed to stamp or emboss onto cloth and leather at a very high pressure, while still
maintaining excellent control. The press was first used for embossing coat-of-arms to the
sides of books, but found wider use in the mass-production of books. The first variant was
shown at the 1851 Exhibition in Crystal Palace. The press worked in a similar manner to
other iron printing presses, and enabled the case of a book to be stamped with the works title,
instead of requiring a skilled finisher.

“The changes resulting from this Arming Press, the binding trade’s second machine, were
great. On the one hand the making of separate cases was a simplification in the process of
covering books; on the other it made available to cloth bindings something wonderfully like
the elaborations that hitherto had belonged exclusively to hand-tooled leather. It also created
in the trade two new classes of workers— case-makers and blockers, as well as engravers
of brass blocks for the binding trade— and it enabled publishers, for the first time, to issue
their publications in a style that was pleasing and acceptable as a permanent binding.” -
Bookbinding Then and Now, Darley, 1959.

56. The Art of Book-Binding, Its Rise and Progress; Including a Descriptive Account
of the New York Book-Bindery, FIRST EDITION, wood engraved frontispiece, engraved
vignette to title, slight foxing and damp staining to corner of last three leaves, original
publisher’s cloth, marginal fading, title gilt to top board, a.e.g., 8vo, New York, E. Walker and
Sons, 1850

57. The Book of Trades, or Library of the Useful Arts, 3 vol., mixed editions, 58
copper plate engraved plates (including frontispieces), occasional spotting, ownership
inscription to front free endpapers, contemporary calf backed boards, Vol 3 spine repaired,
rubbed, 12mo, London, B. and R. Crosby; R. Phillips; Tabart and co., 1806-1811

A popular Victorian children’s book describing different potential jobs. Each of the jobs is
accompanied by a fairly robust description of their duties, as well as a general expectation of
pay for the young reader looking for a career. Some of the trades in this set of three volumes
- for example, the tallow chandler and the wire-drawer - are charmingly archaic, while
others - such as the brewer, or the watch-maker - remain remarkably unchanged. The trades
concerned with book production, including bookbinder, type founder, and copper plate-
printer, are of particular interest.

58. The Book of Trades; or, Familiar Descriptions of the Most Useful Trades,
Manufactures, and Arts, Practised in England, wood engraved frontispiece, 17 wood
engraved plates, later calf backed marbled boards, contemporary ink marks to frontispiece
recto, occasional light spotting, 12mo, London, Dean and Munday, c.1829

A popular Victorian children’s book which expands upon the different professions and trades

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found within England in the early nineteenth century. This book is filled with practical
descriptions of different career paths ranging from the Apothecary to the Wool-Comber,
giving details of daily responsibilities as well as a history of the trades. The most interesting
sections are those on bookbinders, copper engravers and printers.

Top: 55. THE MAGAZINE OF

SCIENCE, AND SCHOOL OF
ARTS, 1842

Bottom: 58. The Book

of Trades; or, Familiar
Descriptions of the Most Useful
Trades, c.1829

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59. The Cabinet of Useful Arts and Manufactures. Designed for the instruction
of Young Persons. 10 full-page wood-engraved illustrations, slightly foxed and browned,
contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper, contemporary morocco-backed boards,
rubbed, corners worn, 12mo Dublin, Christopher Bentham, 1820.

60. The Cabinet of Useful Arts and Manufactures, designed for the Perusal of Young
Persons, 10 full-page wood-engraved illustrations, contemporary ink inscription on front
free endpaper, contemporary morocco-backed boards, rubbed, corners worn, 12mo Dublin,
Christopher Bentham, 1820.

Manufacturing trades are represented by glass, porcelain, linen, rope-making, wool, silk,
hats, leather, paper, sugar, and salt, while the useful arts are represented by printing calico,
founding type, letterpress printing, and book binding. Coming at the end of the volume, and
seeming to fall somewhere between a useful art and manufacturing, is brewing. It has an
early reference to bookbinding in calico. ‘The outside covering which is generally either of calf
or sheep skin, or sometimes of linen or calico…’.

A rare first edition of this title, with later editions over the following decade printed at
Dublin, London, and New York. (Osbourne Collection, p. 110: Dublin, Thos. Courtney, 1821;
Kress C.1389: Dublin, W. Folds & Son, 1825).

61. The Penny Magazine, A Day at a Bookbinders, pp.377-384, wood engraved

illustrations, unbound, 4to, London, September 1842

A detailed insight into factory book binderies during the Industrial Revolution. There are
several wood engravings, including a vignette of the Roan-binding shop and Mssrs. Westleys
and Clark’s factory (for a full description of this factory see No. 20 Dodd). There is also a
description of the bookbinding process, with illustrations of the Sewing-Press, Board-cutting
Machine, Cloth-embossing Machine, Embossing Press, and ‘Extra-Finisher At Work’.

60. The Cabinet of Useful Arts and Manufactures, 1820

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61. The Penny Magazine, A Day at a Bookbinders,
September 1842.

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62. The Whole Art of Bookbinding, Containing Valuable Recipe for Sprinkling,
Marbling, Colouring…, FIRST EDITION, [12], 60p., half-title present, original marbled
boards, neatly rebacked, slim 12mo in 6s, Oswestry: for the author by N. Minshall, 1811,

The first edition of the first English bookbinding manual, published more than a
century after the earliest continental one. “It is very much a working bookbinder’s notebook”
(Pollard and Potter), and gives instructions for sprinkling and marbling, gilding, tooling
in gold, etc. Its author may be one of three candidates: Minshall the printer, Henry Parry,
copyright holder for the book, or W. Price, a binder at Oswestry from c.1804-31. Of the three
Parry seems the most likely; the Oswestry volume was registered at Stationers’ Hall in the
name of Henry Parry, so it would be a remarkable coincidence if he were not the author.
[Pollard and Potter, 89; Middleton 12.]

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63. TOMLINSON, CHARLES., Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures, 9 vols.,
steel engraved frontispiece, engraved title with vignette, steel engraved plates, occasional
light foxing, contemporary decorative red cloth, gilt vignette to top board, 4to, London,
George Virtue, [1852-54]

Tomlinson’s Cyclopaedia is profusely illustrated, including a detailed steel engraving showing

a Starr roller-backer. Charles Starr’s roller-backer was patented in 1851, with the purpose of
forming the text block’s shoulders after it had been rounded. This helped form the very thick
gatherings into the very rounded spines which were in vogue at the time.

Rounding machine and the Starr Backer [Tomlinson’s Encyclopedia] helped the very thick
indians have the very rounded spines in vogue at the time. This roller-backer and other
machines like it became a fixture in the bindery; it was considered one of the greatest labour
saving devices of all.

Tomlinson also includes a 109 page introduction on the Great Exhibition illustrated with
plates including a view of the Crystal Palace and a folding floor plan of all exhibitors. Charles
Starr’s roller-backer was shown and demonstrated in 1851 at the Great Exhibition.

64. WHEATLEY, HENRY B., Bookbinding Considered as a Fine Art, Mechanical Art, and
Manufacture, numerous lithograph plates, publishers decorated cloth, 4to, London, Elliot
Stock, 1882

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65. WILLIAMS, C.J., Cook, The Murderer or the Leicester Tragedy: Being a Full and
Faithful Account of the Horrible Assassination of Mr. John Paas of London, on the 30th
of May, 1832, Perpetrated by James Cook, of Leicester…, folding hand coloured engraved
frontispiece, 24pp., original printed wrapper, upper cover detached, 8vo, Derby, Thomas
Richardson, [c.1830s]

From Bernard C. Middletons Collection of Books on Bookbinding: “The deadly deed occurred
on May 30, 1832, when John Paas (b.1790) - described as a tall gentleman, dressed in black
and with grey whiskers - was in Leicester for the purpose of collecting money from his
customers. One such was James Cook (b.1811), a binder, to whom tools had been supplied
in September, 1831. Cook had two invoices outstanding; one for twelve shillings which he
settled in the morning, and another larger one which he undertook to pay in the afternoon.
Late in the afternoon Paas returned for payment. While his back was turned, Cook dealt him
a blow on the back of his head with an iron press-pin. Pass staggered to the door but was
finished off with more blows. Having fortified himself with a glass of brandy at the hostelry
next door, Cook returned to his bindery, dismembered the unfortunate tool-cutter and
burned parts of him. The next day, having made up the fire and put the remainder of the
corpse in it, he went home. Such a blaze ensued that neighbours thought the chimney was
on fire, so they burst in and discovered the grisly evidence. Cook was publicly executed and
his body was hung in chains until he was buried three days later. Paas’ firm was acquired by
Seare and Co. in 1833.”

An extremely scarce work.

[Middleton, 18; Pollard and Potter, 134]

66. WITTOCK. N, BENNETT, J., BADOCK, J., NEWTON, C., The Complete Book of
Trades, or the Parents’ Guide and Youths’ Instructor; Forming a Popular Encyclopedia
of Trades, Manufactures, and Commerce, as at Present Pursued in England; with a more
particular regard to its state in and near the metropolis: including a copious table of every
trade, profession, occupation, and calling, however divided and subdivided: together
with the apprentice fee usually given with each, and an estimate of the sums required for
commencing business, FIRST EDITION, publisher’s cloth boards, spine worn, text block
intact, 8vo, London, for Thomas Tegg, 1842

67. YOUNG, FRANCIS [EDITOR], Work: An Illustrated Magazine of Practice and

Theory for All Workmen, Professional and Amateur., FIRST EDITION, heavily illustrated,
advertisements present, 20 extra leaves from a previous issue loosely inserted, contemporary
half navy calf over cloth boards, thick 4to, Saturday, April 27, 1889-March 14, 1901

This volume of Work Magazine starts in April of 1889 and goes through March of 1901. It is
filled with articles on bookbinding, furniture, musical instruments, photographic equipment
and much more. Any type of design work is included and plans are frequently given. The
editors assume a certain level of sophistication, even for amateurs.

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65. WILLIAMS,C.J., Cook, The Murderer or the
Leicester Tradegy..., [c.1830s].

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68. ZAEHNSDORF, JOSEPH W., The Art of Bookbinding, PRESENTATION COPY,
presentation note to flyleaf, title in red and black, photolithographic frontispiece, 9
photolithograph plates, text illustrations, publishers maroon cloth, 8vo, London, George Bell,
1880

The first edition of Zaehnsdorf’s classic manual on binding technique. It contains a text
illustration of the Smyth sewing machine from the 1950s. This, and the folding machine of
the same time, are probably the single most-cutting innovation of the period. They were
responsible for a radical re-ordering of working practices in the bindery. “Few binders work
their own headbands in these times of competition and strikes for higher wages. It takes
some time and pain to teach a female hand the perfection of headband working … owing to
this, most bookbinders use the machine-made headband.”

Zaehnsdorf, although often sceptical about the advantages of machinery, was awed by the
new machine: “...about 20,000 sheets may be sewn in a day.” Hand sewing was not made
obsolete, however, as the Smythe was used primarily on cheap cloth work. Finer books were
hand-sewn by women well into the next century.

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 recognised in the second edition of 1890, which contained additional material on trade
practices.

69. [ZAEHNSDORF, JOSEPH W.] The Bookbinder, An Illustrated Journal for Binders,
Librarians, and all Lovers of Books, 7 vol., illustrated frontispiece, title vignette, text
illustrations, contemporary green calf, boards ruled in gilt, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, 4to,
London, William Clowes, 1888

A complete set of this important journal devoted to the craft and history of binding, published
in the 1880s and 1890s. Edited by Joseph Zaehnsdorf for the first three years, the journal
metamorphosed into The British Bookmaker from 1891-1893 and published 7 volumes before
being absorbed into The British Printer.

70. ZAEHNSDORF, JOSEPH W., Technological Handbooks: The Art of Bookbinding. A

Practical Treatise, photolithograph frontispiece, 7 photolithograph plates, text illustrations,
library stamp to title, publishers green cloth, 8vo, London, George Bell, 1890

The second edition of Zaehnsdorf’s classic manual on binding technique. This is the result of
many years’ first-class practical experience; there is much information that cannot be found
in modern text books.

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 recognised in the second edition of 1890, which contains additional material on trade
practices.

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68. ZAEHNSDORF, JOSEPH W., The Art of
Bookbinding, 1880

69. ZAEHNSDORF, JOSEPH W., The bookbinder, An

Illustrated Journal for Binders, 1888

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LIMITED EDITIONS AND PRESENTATION COPIES

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71. A Bookbinder’s Song, Limited edition, one of 200 hundred copies only, title in red and
black, oblong 24mo., original printed wrapper, sewn, for Wynkyn de Worde Society, 1992

72. ADAM, PAUL, Practical Bookbinding, PRESENTATION COPY, blind stamp to title,
text illustrations, publishers grey cloth, 8vo, London, Scott, Greenwood, 1903

73. AMMAN, JOST, Cuts of Craft-Workers, with an introduction by Veronica Speedwell,

Limited Edition, one of 400 copies only, 57 woodcuts reproduced together with 6 other
illustrations in the introduction, original marbled paper covered boards, printed front label,
small 4to, Incline Press, 2008

A Compilation of all the cuts, from Amman’s Standebuch of 1568, illustrating the
practitioners of various art, crafts and trades. Amman was described by George W. Jones as
‘an accurate delineator’ and these contemporary images will be of particular interest to those
drawn to the arts of the book: typefounder, block cutter, paper maker, parchment maker,
printer, illuminator, book binder, gold leaf maker, and chapman.

74. BERALDI, HENRI, Estampes et Livres 1872-1892, FIRST EDITION, Limited Edition,
no.128 of 390 copies only, engraved portrait frontispiece by Dujardin, 40 plates of which 12
in chromolithography, 28 in heliogravure, some chromolithograph plates are heightened with
gold, xiii, [i], 277, [3] pp, half red cloth over marbled boards, green morocco label on spine,
4to, Paris, Librairie L. Conquet, 1892

A rare catalogue written by the collector Henri Beraldi (1849-1931), listing over 400 books,
portraits and original prints, from the 18th and 19th centuries. These listings cover the
acquisitions Beraldi made during the first twenty years of his books collecting career. At the
time he mainly devoted himself to 18th-century prints and illustrated books in fine bindings.
The illustrations show bindings from Marius Michel, Cuzin, Lortic, Bozerian, Simier,
Bauzonnet-Purgold, Ginain, Vogel, Ledoux and Derome. The stunning colour-plates by Danel
are finished with gold.

75. BOSS, THOMAS G., Bookplates of The Club of Old Volumes, Presentation Copy,
inscription to flyleaf verso, frontispiece illustration tipped in, numerous coloured text
illustrations, publishers navy cloth, 8vo, Boston, 2010

76. BOSS, THOMAS G. & ANTONETTI, MARTIN, Bound to be the Best the Club
Bindery, Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Grolier Club, Presentation Copy, note from
author to front free endpaper, numerous monograph text illustrations, coloured plates tipped
in, publishers blue cloth, folio, Boston, Thomas G. Boss Fine Books, 2004

77. BUCK, MITCHELL S., Book Repair and Restoration A Manual of Practical
Suggestions for Bibliophiles. Limited Edition, one of 1000 copies only, Philadelphia,
Nicholas L. Brown, 1918

78. BRADFORD, OWEN, The Binding of This Book, Limited Edition, no. 99 of 200 copies
only, 16pp. On 4 loose leaves, with instructions for binding, 8vo, for The Book Collectors

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Weekend, 23-25th February, 1996

74. BERALDI, HENRI, Estampes et Livres 1872-1892,

1892.

79. BROWN, PHILIP S., The Engraver & The Printer & The Bookbinder, Limited Edition,
one of 250 copies only, text engravings, rebound in brown cloth, original paper wrapper
preserved, small 8vo, Pasadena, The Ampersand Press, 1947

80. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY & ROLT, RICHARD, Book Trade Entries Extracted
from Richard Rolt’s Dictionary of Trade and Commerce (London 1756), First and Only
Edition, 22pp., publishers printed wrapper, 8vo, New York, School of Library Service
Columbia University, 1983

From the Colophon: “This pamphlet was hand-set in 14-point Monotype Caslon 337 and
printed on Kilmory Text, using a c.1885 Wesel flatbed plate handpress, during the months of
October to December 1982, at the Book Arts Press of the Columbia School of Library Service,
by members of the 1st-semester Descriptive Bibliography class… with the assistance of Mary
Kiffer.”

81. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY & SALMON, WILLIAM, On the Gilding & Dying of
Paper, An Excerpt from William Salmon’s Polygraphice (1685), First and Only Edition,
marbled paper sample tipped into frontispiece, 15pp., publishers printed wrapper, 8vo, New
York, The Book Arts Press School of Library Service Columbia University, 1979

From the Colophon: “This pamphlet was hand-set in 14-point Monotype Caslon 337 and
printed on Kilmory Text, using an 1843 Washington and a Wesel flatbed plate hand-press,

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during the months of February-April 1979, at the Book Arts Press of the Columbia School of
Library Service, by members of the 2nd-semester Descriptive Bibliography class… with the
assistance of Nancy Hemstead and Susan Lintelmann.”

82. CRAIG, MAURICE, Notes on my Books, PRESENTATION COPY, signed and inscribed
by author, engraved vignette to title, publishers cloth backed boards, 8vo, Dun Laoghaire,
The Doves, 2010

83. CULOT, PAUL, Jean-Claude Bozerian Un moment de l’ornement dans la reliure

en France, Limited Edition, one of 800 copies only, 36 plates, publishers red cloth, 4to,
Brussels, Eric Speeckaert Expert-Libraire, 1979

84. CURRIE, ARTHUR W., Origins of the Cased Book, Edinburgh, The Albemarle Press,
1970

Colophon reads “The book, set in 12-pt. Bembo 1-pt. Leaded, has been produced as an
exercise by two first-year students on the Book and Periodical Publishing Course at Napier
College, Edinburgh, February, 1970 ALAN HENRY COLIN KIRKWOOD”.

85. DALL, GEERT VAN, PERSVERGULDLETTERS & SIERSTUKKEN van de

collectie Elias P. van Bommel, Limited Edition, No.28 or 150 copies only, 2 vols., photograph
tipped in, numerous plates, one folding, publishers yellow printed glassine wrapper, sewn,
preserved in a yellow paper slipcase, oblong 4to, Dodewaard, Distelkamp & Arethusa Pers,
2001

86. DAVENPORT, CYRIL., Thomas Berthelet Royal Bookbinder to Henry VIII King of
England, With Special Reference to his Bookbindings., Limited Edition, one of 252 copies
only, collotype frontispiece, device to title, text illustrations, 17 collotype plates, captioned
tissue guards, publishers cloth backed blue boards, 4to, Chicago, The Caxton Club, 1901

87. DAVENPORT, CYRIL, Samuel Mearne Binder to King Charles II, Limited Edition,
one of 252 copies only, illustrated frontispiece, device to title, 24 plates, text illustrations,
captioned tissue guards, pages uncut, publishers red cloth backed grey boards, 4to, Chicago,
The Caxton Club, 1906

88. DE HAMEL, CHRISTOPHER & SILVER, JOEL, Disbound and Dispersed: The
Leaf Book Considered, Limited Edition, one of 1000 copies only, numerous full colour text
illustrations, publishers Brillianta purple cloth, original dust jacket, 4to, Chicago, The Caxton
Club, 2005

89. DOCKER, FRANCES, John Paas & James Cook Provincial Bookbinding in the
Eighteen Thirties, Limited Edition, one of 200 copies only, printers device to title, lithograph
text illustration, publishers purple cloth, 4to, Leicestershire, The Plough Press, 1979

90. DUDIN, M. & ATKINSON, RICHARD MAINTYRE, The Art of the Bookbinder and
Gilder, Limited Edition, No.162 of 490 copies only, 16 monograph plates, publishers quarter

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leather, buckram boards, tooled in gilt, folio, Leeds, The Elemete Press, 1977

The first translation into English of Rene Matin Dudin’s important L’Art du Relier-Doreur de
livres, Paris 1772. (For more information please see item no. 22)

81. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY & SALMON, WILLIAM,

On the Gilding & Dying of Paper, 1979

82. CRAIG, MAURICE, Notes on my Books, 2010

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91. FAHEY, HERBERT AND PETER, Finishing in Hand Bookbinding, FIRST EDITION,
text illustrations, publishers orange cloth, gold device on top board, 4to, San Francisco, by
the authors, 1951

A handsome manual for those interested in fine bookbinding, written, printed and published
by the Faheys of San Francisco.

92. FAHEY, HERBERT AND PETER, Finishing in Hand Bookbinding, foreword by

Maureen Duke, Introduction by Alan Isaac, Facsimile of 1951 edition, presentation copy,
photographic frontispiece, text illustrations, publishers purple cloth, gold device on top
board, 4to, Alan Isaac Rare Books with Maureen Duke, 2014

93. FIGHTENBERG, M. & WOLFE, RICHARD J. (Translator) New and Complete

Manual on the Making of Fancy Papers, Limited Edition, one of 300 copies only, 242pp., 2
plates, publishers cloth backed decorative paper, 8vo, Newcastle, Oak Knoll, 2010

From the Colophon: “The cover paper is a facsimile of a “pseudo-marbled” French paper
d’Annonay of the coule or sliding variety in the translators collection, dating to the 1830-1850
period.”

94. FLETCHER, WILLIAM YOUNGER, English Bookbindings in the British Museum.

Illustrations of Sixty-Three Examples Selected on Account of Their Beauty or Historical
Interest, Limited Edition, one of 500 copies only, 66 chromo-lithograph plates, original
publisher’s cloth, t.e.g., cloth slightly faded, bookplate, folio, London, Kagan Paul, Trench,
Trubner, 1895

A magnificent book filled with remarkable reproductions of beautiful bindings. As the preface
notes the examples selected “...also serve to illustrate the history of bookbinding in England
from the end of the 12th century to the latter half of the 18th century…”. The plates by
William Griggs are excellent examples of the chromo-lithographic process and the accuracy
of the reproductions are astonishing. The accompanying text describes the binding, binder,
previous owner, etc. A scarce copy.

95. FRANKEL, W.A., A Specimen of Bookbinding Tools, First Edition, Limited Edition, no.
3 of 20 copies only, signed by author, [8], print blue wrappers, sewn, oblong 24mo, Buskirk,
A. Frankel, 1967

Preface states” All the bookbinding tools herein impressed are part of the collection of W.A.
Frankel. Each tool was hand-cut in brass by a French craftsman. The impressions were
obtained through carbon paper.”.

96. GERLACH, MARTIN, Das Alte Buch Une Seine Ausstattung Vom XV. bis zum XIX.
Jahrhundert Buchdruck, buchschmuck und einbände, Limited Edition, No. 41 of 60 copies
only, numerous plates and text illustrations, quires loose as issued, preserved in a publishers
portfolio, 4to, Vienna, Christoph Reisserv’s Sons, n.d.

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 95. FRANKEL, W.A., A Specimen of Bookbinding
Tools, 1967.

97. HATCHARDS, Notes on the Art of Bookbinding, Limited Edition, 16pp., wood
engravings by Gwendolen Raverat, original printed wrapper, 8vo, London, Hatchards, 1952

98. HICKMAN, TREVOR., Execution of a Bookbinder, Limited Edition, No.68 of 75 only,

a large sheet folded twice and laid into a folder, when the sheet is folded there are four pages,
an illustrated title-page, two pages of text, and a colophon page, when the sheet is opened,
there is a large linocut coloured print, laid in is a broadside, which is an apology for the way
that the print turned out, and a promise that the next broadsheet issued by the press will be
better, 4to, Brewhouse Private Press, 1966

99. HICKMAN, TREVOR & GRAHAM, RIGBY, One Hour Less A Bookbinder Dies from
Goal Fever, Limited Edition, one of 200 copies only, a large sheet folded twice and laid into
a folder, when the sheet is folded there are four pages, an illustrated title-page, two pages of
text, and a colophon page, when the sheet is opened, there is a large linocut coloured print,
4to, Brewhouse Private Press, 1968

100. HOBSON, G. D., Thirty Bindings, Limited Edition, one of 600 copies only,
unnumbered, 30 collotype plates, ex library, library notes on pastedown and front free
endpaper, publishers decorative cloth, 4to, London, The First Edition Club, 1926

101. HOWE, ELLIC., ‘The Trade’ Passages from the Literature of the Printing Craft 1550-
1935, PRESENTATION COPY, note from compiler on front free endpaper, description hand
written by author on half title and separate letter to recipient loosely inserted, bookplates
of Ellic Howe and Jo Street, full panelled calf, bound by Thomas Harrison, London, for the
Printers’ Pension and Orphan Asylum Corporation by Walter Hutchinson, 1943

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One of the few books printed on mould-made paper during World War Two. It was produced
at an obscure printing firm which was almost exclusively engaged in secret work. This copy
was bound by Thomas Harrison and signed on the rear turn in. Harrison was the inventor of
the Harrison groove and one of the trades finest finishers. Harrison was good friends with the
author.

102. HOWELL, NICK AND MOSS, GRAHAM (EDITORS), Forwarded and Finished:
An Amusement Concerning Bookbinders, Limited Edition, No. 22 of 300 copies, numbered
and signed by binder, red linocut illustrations by Anthony Smith in text, cloth backed printed
boards, bound by editor Graham Moss, 4to, Incline Press, 1995.

A fine tribute to bookbinders and their craft, in the form of essays and a poem by Anthony
Smith, accompanied with lino-cuts by Anthony Smith and wood engravings by Anna
Ravenscroft. Introduction by John Coleman, Honorary Fellow of the Society of Bookbinders.
This is number 22 of 100 copies hand-bound at Incline Press using a lino-cut patterned paper
by Patrick Fox, with Caslon and Verona typefaces using an Arab treadle press. The remaining
200 copies were made available as sets of sheets for hand-binding elsewhere. A ‘To The
Binder’ and ‘Correction’ slip is laid-in. This is an uncommon private press item.

103. Impressions of Binder’s Tools, 7 plates of tool prints, captioned card, original hand
made paper wrapper, sewn, 24mo, bookplate of Colin Cohen, The Plough Press, 1972

101. HOWE, ELLIC., ‘The Trade’ Passages from the

Literature of the Printing Craft 1550-1935, 1943

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98. HICKMAN, TREVOR., Execution of a Bookbinder, 1966

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104. JACKSON, HOLBROOK,The Fear of Books, Limited Edition, one of 2000 copies,
signed by the author, full calf, ruled in gilt, a.e.g., 8vo, London, The Soncino Press, 1932

105. KINANE, VINCENT, A Brief History of Printing and Publishing in Ireland, Limited
Edition, one of 950 copies only, publishers green calf, 8vo, Dublin, National Print Museum,
2002

106. KINDER, LOUIS H., Formulas for Bookbinders, Limited Edition, No. 475 of four
hundred and ninety copies printed on Imperial Japon Vellum, numbered and signed by artist
on colophon, title in red and black, text block annotations in red, photogravure frontispiece,
1 photogravure plate, tissue guards, original printed cloth backed boards, 4to, East Aurora,
New York, The Roycrofters, 1905

Kinder was a bookbinder well known for his work at the Roycroft Press, which was founded
by Elbert Hubbard based upon the model created by William Morris in his Kelmscott Press.

107. KINDER, LOUIS H.,The Whisper: A Magazine of brief practical suggestions for
Bookbinders, Vol 1, No.1-12, all published, one of 400 copies, numbered and signed by author
on wrapper verso, original printed wrappers, no.3 top cover detached, 12mo, New York, June,
1901-May 1902

Original prospectuses for The Whisper indicate that Kinder intended to publish five volumes
over a 5 year period. Each volume was to comprise 12 monthly issues. Due to slow sales,
only 12 monthly editions (one volume) of The Whisper were printed. The twelve issues
produced were from June 1901 until May 1902. The price per volume was to be $5.00 paid
in advance and it appears many bookbinders were hesitant to pay this amount in advance for
information that they may or may not use.

The magazine/periodical was published by Kinder himself, with payments directed to his
wife, Julia Metzer Kinder. Like other Roycrofters, he had his own cottage industry on the
side. Interestingly the booklets were printed by Advertiser Print in East Aurora and not the
Roycroft for whom Kinder worked. All 12 booklets were printed in an edition of 400. On
page 181 of volume #1, Kinder noted that this volume would be the only volume produced.
He further stated that the rest of his formulas would be issued as a book entitled Kinder’s
Formulas for Book-Binders. [Middleton, 25]

108. Kerssemakers, Leo., Beschrijvende Catalogus Boekbinden Een overzicht van de

vakbibliotheek van Geert von Daal, handboakbinder te Dodewaard, Presentation Copy,
signed by van Daal, illustrated frontispiece, numerous coloured photograph tipped in,
publishers decorative boards, protected in publishers slipcase, 8vo, HAEF Publishers, 2008

109. MATTHEWS, WILLIAM, Modern Bookbinding Practically Considered,

PRESENTATION COPY, letter from the author on front free endpaper recto, one of 300
copies printed on Holland paper, illustrated frontispiece, 8 plates, tissue guards, publishers
cream cloth, 4to, New York, The Grolier Club, 1889

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110. MCKAY, BARRY & COMENIUS, JOHANN AMOS, Comenius on the Book, The
Text and Images Relating to the Production Distribution and Use of the Book Taken From
Johann Amos Comenius Orbis Sensualium Pictus London 1659, Limited Edition, one of
100 copies only, 12pp., text illustrations, publishers printed green wrapper, sewn, pages
unopened, narrow 8vo, Westmoreland, Boetharson Press, 2006

Printed on the feast day of St John of God, Patron Saint of booksellers, for friends of Barry
McKay Rare Books. Loose leaf inserted with The Neue Yer Gift Sang on recto and a typed
letter from McKay on verso.

111. The Melbert B. Cary jr. Graphic Arts Collection, The Binder’s Art Catalogue of an
Exhibition of Highlights from the Bernard C. Middleton Collection on Bookbinding, FIRST
EDITION, Limited Edition, one of 1000 copies only, illustrated frontispiece, 6 plates (3 full
colour), numerous text illustrations, original printed wrapper, 8vo, New York, 1989

112. MIDDLETON, BERNARD C., The Restoration of Leather Bindings, Presentation

Copy, signed and inscribed by author on half title, text illustrations, small folio, Adamantine
Press, London, 1984

113. O’SULLIVAN, W. Eighteenth Century Rebinding, PRESENTATION COPY, note from

author on paste down, green cloth, small 4to, 2007

107. KINDER, LOUIS H.,The Whisper, 1901-1902

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114. [RASH, DON] EBERHARDT, FRITZ, Fritz Eberhardt’s Finishing Tools and
Technique, Limited Edition, No. 11 of 80 copies only, photographic frontispiece, photograph
plates tipped in, original decorated boards, 4to, Pennsylvania, Boss Dog Press, 2020

The sixth book from the Press and the third volume in the series Eberhardtiana. The goal
of this series is to preserve the writings and art of fine hand bookbinders Fritz Eberhardt
(1917-1997) and his wife Trudi (1921 -2004). In addition to being two of the finest binders
of the twentieth century, Fritz and Trudi were teachers, mentors and good friends to many
practitioners of the book arts. Finishing Tools follows 2004s Rules for Bookbinders and
2014s Three Lectures. It catalogues 94 unique finishing tools which Fritz fabricated for
tooling in blind and gold on his design bindings. Each tool is represented by a description,
measurements, and a scanned image of the tools impression. There are also digital
photographs of the tools, of the electric tooling station that Fritz used, and of a paper tooling
pattern used on Fritz’s design binding of Gordon Craigs Paris Diary. The catalogue proper
is preceded by two essays dealing with Fritz’s work, one by Professor Hans Halbey and

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one by Fritz himself. The essays were published together in the March 1990 issue of the
German bibliophile journal Philobiblon. From the colophon: “This is the third volume of
EBERHARDTIANA. It was compiled, designed and executed by Don Rash, with the ongoing
support of Elaine Rash. Types used are digital versions of Herman Zapf’s Aldus for the
text and Michaelangelo for the titling. The book was composed in Adobe InDes1gn. Boxcar
Press supplied the polymer plates for printing. The paper was made at the University of
Iowa Center for the Book by Tim Barrett and student co-workers, and as printed damp on
the BDP Washington handpress. Inks are Graphic Chemical Albion Matte Black and Hanco
Leaf Brown. The tool impressions in the catalog were done by scanning smoke proofs,
converting them to printable images in Adobe Illustrator and printing them with the text. All
photographic images are digitally printed onto 48 gram Asuka paper.”

115. [RASH,DON] EBERHARDT, FRITZ, Rules For Bookbinders in English and

German, Limited Edition, No. 86 of 100 copies only, numerous engraved text illustrations
from Fritz’s original sketches, original printed wrapper by Ingres Antique bound by Don
Rash, 8vo, printed damp on a Washington Handpress by Don Rash, 2012

116. [RASH, DON] EBERHARDT, FRITZ, Prospectus for Rules For Bookbinders in
English and German, Limited Edition,10pp. Prospectus with two pp. engraved poem in
Eberhardt’s hand, by Don Rash, original printed wrapper, 8vo, 2004

From the prospectus “... Uncompleted at the time of his death in 1997, the poem consists
of 16 stanzas. Each in German and English, plus two notes. He has also done a number
of pencil illustrations. The Sketches have great charm, and grace the pages of the book as
accompaniments to the text.

Don Rash was asked originally by Trudi Eberhardt, Fritz’s wife, to letter the poem for
reproduction, and did so in a manner which hopefully enhances the text and relates to the
illustrations.”

117. RASH, DON, Three Lectures by Fritz Eberhardt, prospectus, 4pp. Sample of work,
original printed wrapper, 8vo, Pennsylvania, Boss Dog Press, 2014

118. RASH, DON, A Catalog of Bookbinding Tools and Equipment Formerly Belonging to
Dr. Loyd Haberly, Limited Edition, No. 16 of 70 copies only, one of 20 printed on handmade
paper with the Haberly watermark, photograph illustrations tipped in, errata leaf, bound in
pastepaper and leather over boards, printed and bound by Don Rash, small folio, Boss Dog
Press, 2012

119. RASH, DON, A Catalog of Bookbinding Tools and Equipment Formerly Belonging to
Dr. Loyd Haberly, Limited Edition, No. 12 of 70 copies only, one of 20 printed on handmade
paper with the Haberly watermark, photograph illustrations tipped in, unbound, printed by
Don Rash, small folio,Boss Dog Press, 2012

120. SARRE, F., Islamic Bookbindings, Limited Edition, no.127 of 550 copies only, 36
chromolithograph plates tipped in, tissue guards, text illustrations, text pages bordered in

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 120. SARRE, F., Islamic Bookbindings, 1923

gilt, publishers cloth, folio, London, Kagan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co., 1923

An invaluable book which describes and shows the national and technical characteristics of
Egyptian, Persian and Turkish bindings from the 9th to the 19th century.

121. SHEPARD, ROB., Lost on the Titanic, Limited Edition, No.139 of 750 copies only,
tipped in colour frontispiece, numerous text illustrations and tipped in coloured plates,
publishers decorative cloth, folio, London, Shepherds Sangorski & Sutcliffe and Zaehnsdorf,
2001

122. SMITH, NICHOLAS T., A Catalogue of Books Bound by S.T. Prideaux Between
MDCCCXC and MDCCCC, Limited Edition, No.119 of 300 copies only, 26 place, original
decorative boards, 8vo, New York, for Nicholas T. Smith, 1979

123. VAUGHAN, ALEX J., Modern Bookbinding A Treatise Covering Both Letterpress
and Stationery Branches of the Treadem With A Section on Finishing and Design, Proof
Copy, annotations to title by printer Dorothy Shakspeare, text illustrations, one folding plate,
ex-libris with the usual stamps and marks, contemporary orange cloth, 8vo, London, Charles
Skiton, 1960

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124. WAKEMAN, GEOFFREY, Nineteenth Century Trade Binding, 2 vol., Limited
Edition, No. 64 of 150 copies only., text illustrations, 16 fabric samples in vol. 2, full buckram
bound by Woolnough Fine Bindings, with matching slipcase, 4to, Oxfordshire, The Plough
Pres, 1983.

Text and illustrations printed by Jonathan Stephenson at The Rocket Press, Oxfordshire.
Chapters on “The Manufacture of Leather”, “Binders’ Cloth”, “Equipment and Machinery”
and “Working Conditions”. A handsome copy of a scarce work.

125. WAKEMAN, GEOFFREY & POLLARD, GRAHAM. Functional Development in

Bookbinding, Limited Edition, No. 7 of 180 copies only, red device to title, numerous binding
samples tipped in, three leaves with photographs preserved in paper pockets, numerous
photographs tipped in,contemporary half calf over marbled boards, 4to, Oxford, The Plough
Press, 1993

The trade binding samples were made by David and Julie Hounslow; the marbled paper for
the ‘Half Leather’ sample was made by Katherine Davis and the paste paper for the ‘Quarter
Leather’ sample was made by Barry McKay.

124. WAKEMAN, GEOFFREY, Nineteenth Century Trade Binding, 1983.

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 125. WAKEMAN, GEOFFREY, Functional Development in Bookbinding, 1993.

126. WHEATLEY, HENRY R., Remarkable Bindings in the British Museum Selected for
their Beauty or Historic Interest, Limited Edition, No. 61 of 150 copies only, 62 plates, title in
red and black, ex-libris, rubber stamp to title, publishers cloth, folio, London, Sampson, Low,
Marston Searle and Rivington, 1889

127. WOLFE, RICHARD J. (Translator), Der Vollkommen Papierfarber The

Accomplished Paper Colorer A Facsimile Reproduction and Translation into English of
the Earliest Extant German Treatise On Paper Marbling and Decoration Together with an
Introductory Discussion Of the Earliest Specialized Literature in Germany On the Marbling
and Decoration of Paper, Limited Edition, one of 300 copies only, cloth backed decorative
boards, 8vo, Newcastle, Oak Knoll Press, 2008

128. WOLFE, RICHARD J., Geheimen der Boekbinderij - Secrets of Bookbinding

An Anonymous 19th Century Dutch Bookbinding Manuel Reproduced in Facsimile,
Presentation Copy, signed and inscribed by author to font free endpaper, folding plate,
publishers calf back marbled boards, 8vo, Boston, 1991

A facsimile of the first work in Holland to provide exact descriptions of marbling and gilding
of cloth, particularly of silk and velvet. There are only three known copies, one in Bernard C.
Middleton’s collection, the other two being held in the University Library in Amsterdam.

This work has four original samples of marbling, and four samples of gilding on paper, silk,
velvet and leather. The original manual has no samples.

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129. Wynkyn de Worde Society, The Revival of Art in Craft, Limited Edition, No.537 of
650 copies only, original printed wrapper, leave unopened, oblong 8vo, Wynkyn de Worde
Society in association with the William Morris Society, 1968

128. WOLFE, RICHARD J., Geheimen der Boekbinderij - Secrets of

Bookbinding An Anonymous 19th Century Dutch Bookbinding Manuel
Reproduced in Facsimile, 1991.

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130. 1930s Bookbinding Material Samples, A vernacular album of bookbinding
samples, compiled during the 1930s by Oswald Rogers of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. 45
pages of various material, not particularly well-documented regarding specific pieces, cloth
covered boards, 4to, September 1934 (written at from pastedown,)

In order from front: 1 page of cord samples by Jas. Pearsall (silk labels on facing page), 2
pages of Jaeger wool, 4 pages of leather, 4 pages of art marble endpapers with the stamp
from N.J. Hill & Co., 2 pages of leatherette paper, 2 pages thin ribbed paper, 2 pages of
book endpapers from N.J. Hill, 6 mixed papers from N. J. Hill, 4 pages leather; with a letter
from Nickerson Bros, London pasted opposite, 4 pages of pencil papers, vellum papers
and japanese papers by James Newman, 3 pages of leather, vellum and parchment by H.
Band & Co., with letter, advertisement and business card pasted on facing page, 2 pages of
morocco samples, 2 pages of shirt cloth fabric by William Whiteley, invoice pasted below,
1 page of receipts from Harrods, Whiteley and Pontings, 1 page on which is pasted a N.J.
Hill Bookbinding Materials 28 page catalogue, including an introduction to bookbinding for
Schools and Amateurs, 2 pages of the compilers stationary, 1 page of brief natation pasted to
rear pastedown.

A unique collection of samples.

131. BALAMUNDI, [Sample Book Of] Balacron 243 Book Cloth, 21 samples leaves, secured
into the covers with a binding bolt, oblong small folio, Huizen, Barramundi, [1970s]

Samples of a Dutch manufactured, non-woven vinyl book covering material showing several
‘grains’.

132. BALAMUNDI, [Sample book of] Texicron Book Cloth, 67 sample leaves, secured into
the covers with a binding bolt, oblong small folio, Huizen, Barramundi, [1970s]

Samples of a Dutch non-woven book covering material, manufactured for Balamundi by

Cartiera del Varone Spa.

133. BALAMUNDI, Sample Book of Balacron 2200 Book Cloth, 20 sample leaves secured
into the coves with a binding bolt, small folio, Huizen, Barramundi, [1970s]

Samples of a Dutch manufactured, non-woven vinyl book covering material, not dissimilar in
appearance to calico-grain book cloth. With the label of the English agents: BBN products of
Borough Road, London, laid down inside the front cover

134. BN INTERNATIONAL (formerly BALAMUNDI) [Sample Book of] Balacron

Book Cloth, 21 sample leaves, secured into the covers with a binding bolt, oblong small folio,
Huizen, BN International, [1970s]

135. BN INTERNATIONAL (FORMERLY BALAMUNDI) [Sample book for] Mundior

Book Cloth, 53 sample leaves, secured into the covers with a binding bolt, oblong 8vo,
Huizen, BN International, [c.1975]

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130. 1930s Bookbinding Material Samples

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136. BENTLY, SMITH & CO., [Sample Book of] Rexalon 8, 26 sample pieces, original card
folder, Manchester, 1970

137. BIBLE SAMPLE BOOK, Victorian travelling sales representative’s book of samples
with four alternative bindings, [34]pp., with examples of chromolithographs, printed title
pages, engraved plates, coloured maps, family record pages printed in red, printed title page
dated 1871, specimens of text pages, illuminated title page, decoratively bound in 4 different
ways with alternative binding samples on pastedowns, 4to, c.1871

138. Bookbinding Materials, a collection of bookbinding materials from the 1970s. 6

leaves of samples mounted on card, cloth bound with title in gilt on top board, small folio,
c.1970s

The mounted samples are followed by typed information on the facing pages. In order from
the front: 1 page with sewing thread, tape & webbing and hemp cord; 1 page of end paper
materials, 1 page of strengthening materials, 1 page with papers important to the construction
of books, imitation cloths and bookcloth; 1 page of bookcloth, 1 page of plastic covering
materials, 1 page of boards, 2 pages of blocking foils and 1 page of leather.

Nothing is known about the compiler, or source of the samples. A unique collection.

139. Bookbinding, Forwarding a Single-Section Book, 22 leaves, 16 blank, 2pp. Of

neatly typed instructions with a pencil diagram tipped in on the facing page, 2 leaves of block
printed paper samples, 1 leaf of blindstamped morocco, quarter vellum, printed boards,
bound by compiler.

140. BOOKCRAFT SUPPLIES, 2 vols. One folder with typed price list, one folder with 12
sample pieces, original printed folder, folio, 1994

141. BOOK PAPERS LIMITED, [Sample book of] Albalin, 12 sample pieces, internal comb
binding, albalin fabric cover, 8vo, London, [1980s]

142. BOOK PAPERS LIMITED, [Sample book of] Albalin, 17 sample pieces, cloth backed
folder, 8vo, London, n.d.

143. COBHAM, HON. VISCOUNT & WOOD, HENRY TRUEMAN, Report of the
Committee on Leather for Bookbinding, Edited for The Society of Arts and the Worshipful
Company of Leathersellers, 11 tipped in chromolithograph plates, 12 leather samples
mounted to front and rear pastdowns, ex-libris, publishers blue cloth, 4to, London, for the
Society of Arts by George Bell, 1905

The samples of leather in the cover have been prepared in accordance with the conclusions of
the Report of the Committee, and were supplied by the following firms: The calf-skin, goat-
skin, and sheep-skin by Messrs. J. Meredith-Jones & Sons, Wrexham; the seal-skin by Mssrs.
Edw. & Jas. Richardson, Newcastle-on-Tyne; and the pig-skin by Mssrs. John Muir & Son,
Beith.

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 137. Bible Sample Book, c.1871

139. Bookbinding, Forwarding a Single-Section Book,

n.d.

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 144. CHURTON, EDWARD,
The Hand-Book of Taste in
Bookbinding, [1800]

144. CHURTON, EDWARD, The Hand-Book of Taste in Book-Binding, New Edition, 1

plate marbled paper samples, wood engraved text illustrations, original printed wrappers,
text faded, 8vo, London, E. Churon, [1800]

145. COUTTS, HENRY T., Manual of Library Bookbinding, Practical and Historical,
FIRST EDITION, 8 plates with binding material samples mounted, full page text
illustrations, ex-library copy with rubber stamps to title, publishers cloth, 8vo, London,
Libraco Limited, 1911.

146. EX-LIBRIS BOOKBINDERS AND BOOK RESTORERS, Sample Folio, containing

97 samples of book cloth, preserved in a maroon cloth cover with title in gilt, 4to, n.d.

147. GAYLORD BROS, The “Toronto Method” of Book Repairing, 5 leather samples and
one end paper sample stamped in, rust marks, 8vo, original printed wrapper, New York, for
the authors, 1924

148. G.E. TAYLOR & SONS, [Sample Book] 45 sample leaves, original printed wrapper,
samples secured by staple, oblong 12mo, Bristol, [1950]

149. GOODALL, THOMAS, Goodall’s Dictionary of Bookcloth, 41pp. Of bookbinding

material samples, publishers printed cloth, 4to, London, Thomas Goodall, [1953]

150. H. BAND & CO., Genuine Hand-Finished Calf, Sheep and Goat Vellums, for
Bookbinding, Writing and Illuminating, original printed wrapper, 17 samples mounted,
inserted two receipts from Russell Bookcrafts and H. Band and Co., 1959

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151. HOLLISTON MILLS, The Making of Bookbinding Fabrics, illustrated, 6 fabric
swatches stapled at rear, library stamp to half title, original brown cloth, title on top board in
gilt, square 12mo, Norwood, Massachusetts, n.d. (c.1953)

152. JAMES RIVER CORPORATION, KIVAR 2, 55 sample pieces, three fold cloth
covered folder, 1991

153. JAMES RIVER CORPORATION, KIVAR 9, 64 sample pieces, original cloth covered
folder, folio, 1991

154. L.S. Dixon & Co., Samples of Marble Papers for Bookbinders, 11 marbled paper
samples, including Shell, Spanish, Stormont, Small Nonpareil, Large, Curled, Gloucester and
Gold Veined, price list to cover verso, L.S. Dixon and Co., Liverpool, c.1920s

155. M.G SERVICES, [Sample Card of] Timat Self-Adhesive Binding Tape, 7 samples, 205
x 80mm, Peterborough, n.d.

156. MOSSGLADE LTD, [Sample Book], 50 fabric sample leaves, hand written
presentation letter with 4 additional samples [M2633 Xerox Finish; Aero Linen; New Matt
Finish Buckram, New Matt Finish Buckram Designs], original ring binder, leather cover, 4to,
Manchester, 2003

Samples include Stationary Range, Binders Range, Buckrams, Calicoes and Archival.

157. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, Exhibition Catalogues, 4 booklets, bound in one,

containing Binding Exhibit, Paris 1900, original wrapper bound in; Paper Exhibit, Paris,
1900, illustrated with black and white photographs and India paper samples; The Oxford
University Press List of Books Exhibited, contemporary blue cloth, 8vo, Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 1900

157. OXFORD UNIVERSITY

PRESS, Exhibition Catalogues,
1900.

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 158. PHILIP, ALEX J., The Business of Bookbinding,
1912.

158. PHILIP, ALEX J., The Business of Bookbinding, illustrated frontispiece, 13 plates,
2 double folding plates with leather samples provided by The Winterbottom Book Cloth
Company and Edward and Jas Richardson, ex-library, library stamps on title and plates,
publishers cloth, leather label on spine, 8vo, London, Stanley Paul, 1912

159. RATCHFORD, Twelve Folios Displaying Fabric Samples, collection includes Libra
covering paper;Windsor and Tudor Dyed Cloth Cover Materials, Stock rage of Rexine for
bookbinding and case covering, Stock range of Calicos, Labelcloths, Mulls and Muslins for
bookbinding and allied trades, Spice Quality Bookcloth, Tudor Bookbinding Cloth, Libra
Covering Paper,Classic P.V. C. Coated Paper,Cascade Waterproof Paper,Art Vellums Quality
WB Bookcloth. Aquarius waterproof library canvas, Antigua Waterproof Library Buckram,
each folio 2pp. With a minimum of 19 samples per folio, Stockport, (c.1990s)

160. RED BRIDGE BOOK CLOTH, [Sample Book of] Andros, Tinos and Siros Ranges of
Cover Materials, 45 sample pieces of book cloths, original Andros cloth covered folder, front
cover blocked in gilt, the samples secured with brass binding bolts, small 4to, Bolton, Red
Bridge, [1980s]

161. RED BRIDGE BOOK CLOTH, [Sample Book of] Andros, Tinos and Siros Ranges
of Cover Materials, 30 sample pieces of book cloths, original Andros cloth covered 3-fold
booklet, small 4to, Bolton, Red Bridge, [1970s]

162. RED BRIDGE BOOK CLOTH, [Sample Book of] Kestodur Range of Book Cover
Materials, 35 sample pieces of book cloths, original cloth covered folder, front cover blocked
in gilt, the samples secured with a brass binding bolt, small oblong 4to, Bolton, Red Bridge,
[1980s]

163. RILEY, B & CO., [Sample Book of] Stock Shades of Cover Materials, [12]p., 89 small
sample pieces, original cloth, 9vo, Huddersfield, B. Riley and Co., [1980s]
Announcing themselves as ‘specialist binders to university and research libraries, this sample

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book shows librabind, cotton buckram, pyrox, waterproof library cloth and art canvas.

164. RILEY, B & CO. [Sample Book] [8]p., 72 small sample pieces, original cloth, 8vo,
Huddersfield, B. Riley and co., [1980s]

165. RICHARDSON, E. & J., Leather Prepared by…, 9 leaves of leather samples, preserved
in closing case, case rubbed, ex library, c.1920s

166. RICHARDSON, E. & J., Leathers for Bookbinding and Upholstery, [1], 8, [1]pP,
leather samples mounted to paste downs, publishers green cloth, ex-library copy with rubber
stamp to title and library sticker to top board, 8vo, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Elswick Leather
Works, n.d. [c.1910]

167. RITCHIE & EASON, Printing Mulls and Bookbinding Materials, 18 sample leaves,
original printed card wrapper, binding bolts, oblong 8vo, Manchester, [c.1980s]

168. Rubbings of Book Covers, manuscript title page, scrapbook of a collection of

rubbings of elaborately tooled book covers, with photographs, clippings and lithographs
mounted in, original half black calf, lacking spine but block still intact, folio, c.1904

169. RUSSELL BOOKCRAFTS HITCHIN, Russell Coloured Foil for Bookbinding and
Bookcrafts…, 9 foil leaves of 12, the rear 2 stubs, held to paper wrapper with a binding bolt,
oblong 12mo, n.d.

Left: 165. RICHARDSON, E. & J., Leather Prepared by...,

c.1920s
Right: 168. Rubbings of Book Covers, c.1904.

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 172. SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF
ARTS, Report of the Committee on Leather for
Bookbinding, 1901.

170. RUSSELL BOOKCRAFTS HITCHIN, Russell Coloured Foil for Bookbinding and
Bookcrafts…, 12 foil leaves, held to paper wrapper with a binding bolt, oblong 12mo, n.d.

171. SCOTT GRAPHICS, [Sample Book of] Salange Kivar 5 bookbinding material, 26
sample leaves, small oblong 8vo, original leather cover, Massachusetts, [1980s]

172. SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES, &

COMMERCE, Report of the Committee on Leather for Bookbinding, FIRST EDITION,
20pp., title lightly toned, original printed wrapper, 8vo, London, William Trounce, 1901

173. SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES, &

COMMERCE, Report of the Committee on Leather for Bookbinding, 120pp., 12 leather
samples mounted to front and rear pastedown, tipped in photographic frontispiece, 10 tipped
in plates, 4to, London, George Bell and Sons, 1905

174. TEXLIBRIS BOOK CLOTH, [Sample Book of] GTI Book Cloths, 42 sample pieces,
original limp cloth, oblong 8vo, Paris, TexLibris, [1987]

175. TEXLIBRIS BOOK CLOTH, [Sample Book of] Toiles de Provence, 17 sample leaves,
original fabric wrapper, samples secured by staples, small oblong 8vo, Paris, TexLibris,
[1987]

176. T. R. DALE & SONS, Designs for Finishing Tools for Bookbinding, 14 leaves of
printing samples in various colours, original printed wrapper, 8vo, Edinburgh, for the author,
n.d.

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177. VAN DAAL, GEERT, 50 Marbled Papers, a collection of 50 marbled papers, held
together by a brass pin, Sante Fe, New Mexico, August 1989

178. WARDLE STOREYS, [Sample book of] REXINE, 41 sample pieces, publishers three-
fold card folder, folio, 2000s

179. WATSON GRANGE BOOK CLOTH, [Sample book of] Novalin Book Covering
Material, 38 sample pieces, small 4to, original three-fold cloth covered folder, Lindwood,
Watson Grange, 1987

180. WATSON GRANGE BOOK CLOTH, [Sample book of] Novalux Book Covering
Material, 24 sample pieces, small 4to, original three-fold cloth covered folder, Lindwood,
Watson Grange, 1987

181. WATSON GRANGE BOOK CLOTH, [Sample book of] Novalite Book Covering
Material, 50 sample pieces, small 4to, original three-fold cloth covered folder, Lindwood,
Watson Grange, 1987

182. WATSON GRANGE BOOK CLOTH, [Sample book of] Linemaster 135 Book
Covering Material, 32 sample pieces, small 4to, original cloth covered folder, Lindwood,
Watson Grange, [1980s]

183. WHITMAN PRODUCTS, Skivertex [Sample Book], c.200 sample leaves, small oblong
12mo, leave wrapper, Rhode Island, [c.2010]

184. WINTERBOTTOM, Sample Book of X Quality Cloth, 105 sample leaves, oblong 12mo,
c.1900s

185. WINTERBOTTOM, [Sample Book of] Wintex, 15 sample leaves, original printed
wrapper, oblong 12mo, [n.d.]

186. WINTERBOTTOM BOOK CLOTH CO. Book Cloth, [7],54pp., 54pp of fabric
samples, text leaves include A.B.C. Guide to the grades of Winterbottom Book Cloth shown in
this Sample Book, Guidance for Customers and Book Cloth Calculator, c.1920s

187. WINTER, [Sample book of] Wicotex, 35 sample piece, original cloth folder, front block
gilt, 8vo, [1980s]

188. WINTER, [Sample Book of] Nitray, 36 sample pieces, original cloth covered folder,
front block gilt, 8vo, [1980s]

189. WOOLNOUGH, C.W., A Pretty Mysterious Art, A lecture… to the Royal Society of
Arts, marbled paper sample frontispiece, 10 marbled paper samples by Ann Muir tipped in,
cloth backed marbled boards, paper label to spine, slim 8vo, preserved in a case, The Fleece
Press, 1996

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MAGAZINES AND SERIALS

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 192. Bookbinder, Complete Run, 1987-2021

190. ARTIFEX Journal of the Crafts, volume 1., numerous text illustrations, publishers
printer cover, Oriel Press, 1968

191. The Ampersand, Volume 14, Number 2, folio, 1994

192. Bookbinder, COMPLETE RUN, 38 vols., 1-35, 1987-2021

“BOOKBINDER is the society’s flagship journal. First produced in 1987, it features articles
on a wide range of topics. As well as the many practical, artistic and historical aspects of
bookbinding, other book- and binding-related subjects are also covered.

BOOKBINDER also regularly contains step-by-step, picture-based tutorials as well as

contributions by – or about – some of our most renowned and respected binders.

Several recent bindings by SoB members are featured in each issue and, every other year,
the journal includes a comprehensive review of the society’s International Bookbinding
Competition.”

193. The New Bookbinder, 41 vols., Complete Run, 1981-2021

“The New Bookbinder (TNB) is published annually.

TNB covers all aspects of binding, and includes articles on binding design, methods
and techniques, contemporary and historical movements, profiles of prominent binders
worldwide, book and small press reviews.”

194. THE BURLINGTON MAGAZINE & CRAIG, MAURICE, Eighteenth-century Irish

Bookbindings, 4to, May 1952

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195. [FACSIMILE] Country Life, 3 vols., including: Vol. XXIII - No. 557, January 25th,
1908; Vol.XXIV - No. 60, July 11th, 1908; Vol. XXIV - No. 609, September 5th, 1908; text
illustrations, folio

196. DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS Newsletter, 49 vols., Complete Run for April

2006-Spring 2022

The Designer Bookbinders society evolved from The Hampstead Guild of Scribes and
Bookbinders, which was founded in 1951. Its name was changed in 1955 to The Guild of
Contemporary Bookbinders.

“Designer Bookbinders’ Newsletter has been published since 1973 on a quarterly basis and
provides a forum for the free exchange of ideas, information and opinions amongst the
membership.

197. Designer Bookbinders Review, 8 vols only, including issue 1-5, 10,12,14, FIRST
EDITION, collotype plates, original printed wrapper, 8vo, London, Designer Bookbinders,
1973-1979

198. Designer Bookbinders An Illustrated Directory of Fellows 3, text illustrations ,

publishers wrapper, 8vo, London, Designer Bookbinders, 1978

199. Designer Bookbinders 1974, FIRST EDITION, numerous collotype plates, original
publishers wrapper, oblong 8vo, London, the Crafts Advisory Committee, 1974

200.Designer Bookbinders, KOCH, JEANETTE (Editor) Catalogue for Designer

Bookbinders International Competition 2013

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201. JAMIESON, ELEANORE, English Embossed Bindings 1825-1850, Cambridge
Bibliographical Society Monograph No. 7., FIRST EDITION, original printed wrapper, 4to,
for the Cambridge Bibliographical Society by Cambridge University Press, 1972

202. [IRISH GEORGIAN SOCIETY] Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society Volume
XXXVII, 1995

203. [IRISH GEORGIAN SOCIETY] Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society Volume
XXXV, 1992-1993

204. [IRISH GEORGIAN SOCIETY] Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society,
Vol. XVII Nos. 3 and 4, July-December 1974

205. IRISH GEORGIAN SOCIETY, Volume LXVII, Privately Printed Opuscula Issued to
Members of the Sette of Odd Volumes, Decorative Book Binding in Ireland, Limited Edition,
No. 11 of 133 only, presented by Ralph Strans, chromolithograph frontispiece, numerous
plate, some coloured, original printed wrapper, 8vo, 1974

206. ISAAC, PETER (EDITOR), Quadrat, A Periodical bulletin of research in progress on

the British book trade, 4to, January 2000

207. The Institute of Paper Conservation & RICHMOND, ALISON (Editor),

Modern Works, Modern Problems? Conference Papers, 1994

208. The Institute of Paper Conservations & FAIRBASS, SHEILA (Editor)

Conference Papers Manchester 1992

209. The Institute of Paper Conservation & MORENUS, LINDA STIBER &
O’LOUGHLIN, ELISSA, Institute of Paper Conservation, Removal of Pressure-Sensitive
Tapes and Tape Stains, folio, 13-17 September, 1999

210. IPC Conference Papers London 1997

211. The Leisure Hour, steel engraved title, numerous wood engraved text illustrations,
497-528pp., unbound, 8vo, c.1890s

212. Mechanics Magazine, Volumes 2 and 15 only, hand coloured decorative title to vol. 2,
engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. 15, numerous text illustrations, rebound in modern half
calf, 8vo, London, Vol 2 published by Knight & Lacy, 1824, vol. 15 published by M. Salmon,
1831

213. MELLOR, W.M. (EDITOR) The Bookbinding Trades Journal, Vol. 1 No.1-24, Vol.
2 No. 1-10 and 12-16 with No. 11 and 16 in facsimile and a separate original copy of 16. Vii,
387, 256pp., numerous illustrations, rebound in half green morocco, No. 11 and 16 loose in
wrappers, 8vo, Manchester, The Bookbinders & Machine Rulers’ Consolidated Union, 1906-

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July 1914

A good complete run of this important trade periodical “...with practical and historical
articles on trade in Britain and abroad.” Includes Mellor’s articles on marbling written under
the pseudonym “Mancunian” and Thomas Harrison’s articles on “The Principles of Design
as applied to Book Decoration”. Well-illustrated throughout with examples of bindings,
techniques, designs, etc.

213. MELLOR, W. M., The Bookbinding Trades

Journal, 1906-1914.

214. OLMSTED, DUNCAN H., Seventy Years A Checklist of Book Club Publications 1914-
1983, Book Club of California, 1984

215. [OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY] Studies in the Book Trade in Honour

of Graham Pollard, FIRST EDITION, publishers cloth backed boards, 8vo, Oxford, Oxford
Bibliographical Society, 1975

216. The Paper Conservator/ The Journal of the Institute of Conservation, 37 vols,
numbers 1-34, 1976-2011

The Paper Conservator was a peer reviewed publication which was published once a year.
It ran from 1976-2008, where in 2008 it was combined with The Conservator under the the
Institute of Conservation (Icon) and renamed The Journal of the Institute of Conservation.
As such, its aims reflect those of Icon, to advance knowledge and education in conservation
and achieve the long term preservation and conservation of moveable and immoveable
cultural heritage. The Journal provides a collective identity for conservators; it promotes and

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supports both the profession and professionalism. With international contributions on all
aspects of conservation, it is an invaluable resource for the heritage sector.

217. PARTINGTON, WILFRED (Editor), The Bookman’s Journal, 2 vols., numerous text
illustrations and plates, contemporary cloth, 8vo, Third Series, Vol. XV. No. 1 -1927- Third
Series Vol. XVI. No.8, 1928

218. The Private Library, Third Series, Volume 6:3, Presentation Copy, signed and
inscribed from one of the authors on pastedown, letter loosely inserted, original printed
wrapper, 8vo, Autumn, 1983

219. The Private Library, Third Series, Volume 10:3, original printed wrapper, 8vo,
Autumn 1987

220. The Private Library, Third Series, Volume 9:3, original printed wrapper, 8vo,
Autumn 1986

221. The Private Library, Volume 6:1, original printed wrapper, 8vo, January 1965

222. The Private Library, Sixth Series, Volume 2:1, original printed wrapper, 8vo, Spring
2009

223. The Library, The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, Sixth Series, Volume 16
Number 1, original printed wrapper, 8vo, Oxford, Oxford University Press, March 1994

224. [FACSIMILE] Ye 282nd Meeting of Ye Sette of Odd Volumes, held at Ye

Imperial Restaurant (Oddenino’s) On Tuesday, ye 22nd day of October, 1907,
2pp., wood cut illustration, title in red and black, 8vo, 20th December, 2006

225. Ye 311th Meeting of Ye Sette of Odd Volumes, held at Ye Grolier Club

(Oddenino’s), on Monday, ye 3rd day of November, 2008, 8pp., illustrated title, title
in red and black, 7 full colour illustrations, 1 tipped in, 8vo, 2008

226. The Society of Bookbinders News Letter, complete run, 80 vols., original printed
wrappers, small 4tos, March 1992 - April 2022

“The Society of Bookbinders is a UK-based educational charity dedicated to traditional and

contemporary bookbinding and to the preservation and conservation of the printed and
written word.

The society is organised into eight UK regions plus an overseas group. The UK regions hold
regular meetings at which masterclasses, lectures and demonstrations are given on various
bookbinding or binding-related subjects and techniques. The regions also hold social events,
organise visits and exhibitions and represent the SoB at local book and craft fairs.

The society’s National Newsletter is published three times a year (in April, August and

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December) and is distributed free to members. As well as news items, a letters page, classified
ads and details of bookbinding courses, the newsletter also carries short articles, book
reviews and reports from regional meetings etc.”

227. [THE SOCIETY OF BOOKBINDERS] WESTBOUND, Newsletter of the Western

Region, 49 vols. Full run from Summer 2002-Spring 2022

WESTBOUND is the Society of Bookbinders Western Regional Newsletter, which covers

Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, parts of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, and
South Wales.

A Collection of Society of Bookbinders ephemera collected over 20 years, including

pamphlets about courses, annual conferences, Lists of Members, Workshops, Directory of
Suppliers and others.

226. The Society of Bookbinders, Complete Run,

March 1992 - April 2022.

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228. Contemporary Bookbindings from The Society of Bookbinders, Bibliotheca
Wittockiana, Bruxelles, 1998

229. The Society of Bookbinders International Bookbinding Competition, 2015

230. The Society of Bookbinders, International bookbinding competition, 2017

231. The Society of Bookbinders Catalogue of the Winnings Bindings in the Silver
Jubilee Bookbinding Competition, An Exhibition held at the Barbican Library, London, 3rd-
30th September, 1999

232. Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Monthly Supplement of The Penny
Magazine… The Commercial History of a Penny Magazine, Printing Presses and Machinery
- Bookbinding, 504-512, steel engraved text illustrations, disbound, 4to, 1833

233. THE STUDIO, Special Winter-Number 1899-1900, Modern Bookbinding and Their
Designers, chromolithograph frontispiece, chromolithograph and black and white plates, text
illustrations, lacking front ads, rebound in brown cloth, spine rubbed, 4to, London, 1899

234. THE STUDIO, Special Winter-Number 1899-1900, Modern Bookbinding and Their
Designers, chromolithograph frontispiece, chromolithograph and black and white plates, text
illustrations,with advertisement leafs, rebound in green cloth, 4to, London, 1899

235. THE STUDIO, Special Winter-Number 1899-1900, Modern Bookbinding and Their
Designers, chromolithograph frontispiece, chromolithograph and black and white plates,
text illustrations, with advertisement leafs, rebound in green cloth, ORIGINAL WRAPPER
PRESERVED, 4to, London, 1899. A Fine Copy.

The Studio Magazine was an illustrated fine arts and decorative arts magazine, founded in
Britain in 1893, which exerted a major influence on the development of the Art Nouveau
movement.

236. WALFORD, EDWARD (Editor), The Antiquary A Magazine Devoted to the Study of
the Past, No. 10 vol. 11., 137-184pp., text illustrations, original printed wrapper, covers loose
and chipped, 4to, London, Elliot Stock, October, 1880

237. WALLACE LIBRARY, Bookbinding 2000 Proceedings, A Collection of Papers

from the June 2000 Conference Celebrating the Installation and Opening of the Bernard
C. Middleton Collection of Books on the History and Practice of Bookbinding, colour text
illustrations, publishers printed wrapper, 4to, Rochester Institute of Technology, Cary
Graphic Arts Press, 2002

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235. THE STUDIO, Special Winter Number 1899-1900.

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Trade and Exhibition Catalogues, Price Lists and
Advertisements

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238. A Collection of photographs of Luxurious bindings for photogravures for a
Booksellers Catalogue

239. The Arts Council, An Exhibition of Modern English and French Bindings From
the Collection of Major J.R. Abbey, FIRST EDITION, 16 Collotype plates, original printed
wrapper, 8vo, The Arts Council, 1949

240. ASPREY, Finely Bound Books, Catalogue, n.d.

241. A. E. Blackledge, Price list for bookbinder A. E. Blackledge, 1 leaf, 8vo, c.1880s

242. BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART, The History of Bookbinding 525-1950A.D., An

Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art November 12, 1957 to January 12, 1958,
text illustrations, 106 photograph plates, publishers decorative boards, 4to, Baltimore, by The
Trustees of the Walter Art Gallery, 1957

243. BAUMAN RARE BOOKS, 80 Great Books, 2012

244. BAUMAN RARE BOOKS, Photography Catalogue, n.d.

245. BAYNTUN, GEORGE, Particular Bindings, n.d.

246. BECK, DEREK, The Design of Tools for Bookbinding, with New Tools For Hand
Bookbinding loosely inserted, illustrated price list, two illustrations pasted over with updated
models, 4to, London, 1986

247. BERNARD SHAPERO, A Collection of Fine Bindings, catalogue, c.1990s

248. Bloomsbury Auctions, Sale of the Working Library of the Late Howard M. Nixon,
5th October, 1983

249. BODLEIAN LIBRARY, English Romanesque Illumination, FIRST EDITION, 12pp.,

10 double sided plates, ex-libris, rebound in red cloth, original wrapper preserved, bookplate
to frontispiece, 8vo, Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1951

250. BODLEIAN LIBRARY, Gold-Tooled Bookbindings, FIRST EDITION, 8.pp, 12 double

sided plates, ex-libris, rubber stamp to plates tail, rebound in red cloth, original wrapper
preserved, 8vo, Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1951

251. [BODLEIAN LIBRARY] An Artful Craft, Historic Bookbindings from the Broxbourne
Library and other Collections, 4-page folding leaflet, Oxford, Bodleian Library, 12 June-31
October 2009

252. BOMMEL, ELIAS P. VAN, Boekband Verguld Materiaal, 3 leaf foreword, over 200
plates of tool heads, rollers, letter types, and other bookbinding finishes, 4to, 1982

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253. Bound to Please, The Dorothy McIlvain Scott Collection November 6th 2008 -
February 3 2009, at the George Peabody Library, exhibition catalogue, 2008

254. BRITISH MUSEUM, A Guide to the Exhibition in the King’s Library, Illustrating
the History of Printing, Music-Printing and Bookbindings, publishers printed boards, 8vo,
London, by Order of the Trustees, 1939

255. BRITISH MUSEUM, Bookbindings from the Library of Jean Grolier, A Loaned
Exhibition 23 September 31 October 1965, coloured frontispiece, numerous full page
illustrations, ex-library, rubber stamp to title, publishers cloth, 8vo, London, The Trustees of
the British Museum, 1965

256. BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB, Exhibition of Bookbindings, FIRST EDITION,

lxi, 32pp., hand coloured folding frontispiece, 113 plates, most coloured, captioned tissue
guards, large paper copy, rebound in cloth, folio, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1891

Breslauer (Uses of Bookbinding Literature, p.25) notes: “In 1891 there took place the first
really comprehensive loan exhibition of historical bookbindings, at the Burlington Fine
Arts Club in London. Almost 900 bindings lent by the foremost British collectors, were
shown and described by E. Gordon Duff and Sarah Prideaux in a large quarto catalogue
which reproduced 152 of them on 113 plates, almost all in colour”. As well as the excellent
introductory remarks, providing a survey on the exhibition and highlighting the notable
items, there are three appendices; the catalogue; and three indexes. The latter are index of
binders; index of collectors and arms; and index of contributors. [Mejer 1261, Brenni 284,
Schmidt-Kunsemuller 873]

257. CHAS. J. SAWYER, Fine Bindings, Catalogue 273, 1967

258. CHARLES WOOD BOOKSELLER, Recent Acquisitions, Catalogue 132, 2007

259. CHARLES WOOD BOOKSELLER, Newly Acquired Books and Manuscripts,

Catalogue 159, October, 2013

260. CHARLES WOOD BOOKSELLER, New and Recent Acquisitions, Catalogue 139,
July 2009

261. CHARLES WOOD BOOKSELLER, New and Recent Acquisitions, Catalogue 138,
February 2009

262. CHARLES WOOD BOOKSELLER, Rare Books on Printing and The Graphic Arts,
Art Conservation, and Related Subjects, Catalogue 151, October 2011

263. CHARLES WOOD BOOKSELLER, Recent Acquisitions, Catalogue 118, January

2004

264. CHARLES WOOD BOOKSELLER, Part 1: Printing, The Graphic Arts and Book

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History, Part 2: Arts, Crafts and Trades, Catalogue 160, January 2014

265. CHARLES WOOD BOOKSELLER, A Touchstone for the Arts, Catalogue 167, 2015

266. CHARLES WOOD BOOKSELLER, History of the Book, Catalogue 121, December
2004

267. CHARLES WOOD BOOKSELLER, Rare Books, Catalogue 131, March 2007

268. CHARLES WOOD BOOKSELLER, The Book, Printing, and the Graphic Arts,
Catalogue 101, 1999

269. CHRISTIE’S, Fine Historical and Modern Decorated Bookbindings, London, 1 May,
1996

270. CHRISTIE’S, The Michel Wittock Collection Part 1: Important Renaissance

Bookbindings, 7 July, 2004

271. CHRISTIE’S, The Chevalier Collection of English Twentieth-Century Bookbindings…,

New York, November 9 1990

272. CHRISTIE’S, Bookbinding tools, November 3, 1983

273. CHRISTIE’S, The Helmut N. Friedlaender Library, 2 vols., 23-24 April, 2001

274. CHRISTIE’S, Bookbinding Tools, The Property of W. T. Morrell and Company

Limited, July 24, 1981

275. COBDEN-SANDERSON, T.J., [Exhibition Catalogue] Bookbinding 1884-1893, A

centenary Exhibition, 20 January- 29 April, 1984, 8pp., original printed wrapper, A4, 1984

276. COCKERELL, DOUGLAS, Illustrated Price List of Bookbinding Tools Materials and
Appliances, original printed wrapper, 8vo, for G. W. Russel and Son, [1931]

277. CONROY, TOM, Bookbinders’ Finishing Tool Makers 1780-1965, Oak Knoll Press,
2002

278. CRAFTWARES LIMITED, Leatherwork Materials [Price List], 42pp., 8vo, 1969-70

279. DEBURCA RARE BOOKS, Bookbindings Irish and Foreign, Catalogue 76, Spring
2006

280. DEBURCA RARE BOOKS, Irish Bookbindings, Catalogue 31, Winter 1993

281. DEBURCA RARE BOOKS, Irish Bookbindings, Catalogue 36, January 1995

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282. DEBURCA RARE BOOKS, A selection of fine, rare and important books and
manuscripts, Catalogue 123, Summer, 2016

283. DEBURCA RARE BOOKS, Irish Bindings, Catalogue, Spring 2018

284. Decorated Paper Designs 1800 From the Koops-Marcus Collection, 4to, The
Pepin Press, 1997

285. DEWHURST, SAMUEL, Advertisement leaf for Samuel Dewhurst and Co. Limited
Original Manufactures & Sole Patentees of Sugar’s Patent Tracing Cloth, Bookbinders’
Cloth, Label Cloth, Beetled Twills, Bleachers, Dyers & Finishers at Broughton Dye Works,
Manchester, 1 leaf, age related toning, 4to, c.1880s

286. DOMINIC WINTER, Bookbinding & Conservation Equipment, Tuesday 13th March
2007

287. DOMINIC WINTER, Printed Books, Maps and Documents, 14 June 2017

288. Early American Book-Bindings From The Collection of Michael Papantonio,

New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972

289. Europäische Einbandkunst Aus Sechs Jahrhunderten Beispiele aus der

Bibliothek Otto Schäfer Schweinfurt, 1992

290. Fine Bindings 1500-1700 from Oxford Libraries, Catalogue of an Exhibition,

coloured frontispiece, 52 black and white plates, publishers blue cloth, 8vo, Oxford, Bodleian
Library, 1968

291. Fine Bindings Gothic to Modern - European Handbound Books in the Princeton
University Library Together With The William H. Scheide Library and The Robert H.
Taylor Collection, chromolithograph plates, original printed wrapper, 8vo, Exhibition
Gallery, Princeton University Library, 1978

292. FOREST BOOKS, Book Binding Tools, containing samples of approximately 900
finishing tools, 4to, 1993

293. GETTY, SIR PAUL, The Wormsley Library, full page coloured text illustrations, 4to,
for the Wormsley Library by Maggs Bros., London, 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 mediaeval times to today.There are also
splendid manuscripts, like the magnificent Gradual from the monastery of Ottobeuren, the
unique pages from the life of St. Thomas Becket, repatriated from Belgium some fifteen

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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 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 mediaeval 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.”.

294. THE GRANGE FIBRE, Bookbinding Materials [Price List], 2pp., January 1982

295. THE GROLIER CLUB, Invitation to the Private View of the Exhibition of Old English
Bookbindings, 4pp., New York, 1899

296. The Hand Bookbinders of California, 30th Anniversary Exhibition 2002

297. H. P. KRAUS, The Ninetieth Catalogue, photographic illustrations tipped in, buckram
backed blue boards, New York, [N.D.]

298. ILAB, The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers Directory 2005/2006

299. ILAB, The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers Directory 2008/2009

300. ILAB, Thirty Seventh Antiquarian Bookfair, 1996

301. ISELIN, JOSEPHINE LEA, “The Great George” Cruikshank and London’s Graphic
Humorists (1800-1850), New York, The Grolier Club, 2021

302. J. HEWIT & SONS TANNERS AND LEATHER DRESSERS, Price List, [7]pp.,
4to, mailing folds, London, 1965

303. J & J Leighton, Booksellers and Bookbinders, A quotation for binding repair-
work, to ‘E. Redman’, 2pp., both printed on one side of a piece of laid paper, both lightly
aged,woodcut vignette of a bookbinding scene, after J. Amman, second woodcut vignette of a
printing scene after Stumpff, mailing folds, 205 x 130mm, n.d.

The invoice is in manuscript, with the first page signed ‘J&J Leighton’, and headed ‘Re
Repairs to Registers”. Begins ‘Rebinding in half calf as one done 10 years ago.’ Gives prices,
with an extra charge if ‘the handles have to be remade and refixed’. ‘We shall only put new
handles to those that absolutely require it.’ The second page gives a detailed quotation for the

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work, split into four parts the charges for each of which amount to £65 9s.

James Leighton (1802-1890) and his son Walter James Leighton were second and third
generation bookbinders. Walter James Leighton was first cousin to the celebrated John
Leighton (1822-1912), artist and designer, and the wider family almost certainly included
Jane and Robert Leighton of Leighton, Son & Hodge, the well-known Victorian publishers’
binders, as well as the Leighton Brothers (George Cargill Leighton, Charles Blair Leighton
and Stephen Leighton), pioneers of colour printing. The immediate family firm had been
founded, apparently as early as 1798, by his grandfather John Leighton (d.1857). Walter
James Leighton became a full partner in the family business in 1883. It became James &
Walter James Leighton for a few years before reverting to J. & J. Leighton after his fathers
death. The business continued until after Walter’s death, becoming a limited company
in 1920. At various times the firm’s customers had included Gladstone, Carlyle, Michael
Faraday, Sir William Osler, William Morris and Lord Birkenhead.

304. HOLLISTON, Price List, c.1980s

305. L. NETTLETON & Sons, Cast Brass Type Handle Letters, Finishing Tools, and
Typeholders, 80pp. Illustrated catalogue, original printed wrapper, 4to, London, 1947

303. J&J Leighton, Booksellers and Bookbinders, n.d.

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306. LOCK, MARGARET, Trade Bookbindings in Cloth, 1820-1920, W.D. Jordan Special
Collections and Music Library Occasional Paper Number Three, Queen’s University, May,
2004

307. LEO, WILHELM, Catalogue von Wilhelm Leo’s Nachfolger, Fabrik & Lager von
Buchbinderei-Materialien Werkzeugen und Maschrer, 68pp., marginal chipping, original
printed wrapper, Stuttgart, 1920

308. MAGGS BROS., Catalogue No. 665: English Armorial and Decorative Bindings,
ex-library, rubber stamps from The Library Association Library, in decorative wrappers, 4to,
London, 1938

309. MAGGS BROS., Bookbinding in the British Isles Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century,
2 vols., London, Summer 1996

310. MAGGS BROS., Bookbinding in the British Isles Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century
Catalogue 1075, 2 vol., Spring 1987

311. MAGGS BROS., Historic and Artistic Bookbindings from the XIVth Century to the
Present Time, Catalogue No.324, 1914

312. MAGGS BROS., Bookbindings: Historical & Decorative, Catalogue No. 489, 1927

313. MAGGS BROS., Bookbindings of Great Britain, Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century,
Catalogue 845, September 1957

314. MAGGS BROS., Provincial Bookbinding in Great Britain Sixteenth to the Twentieth
Century, Catalogue 1014, Spring 1981

315. MAGGS BROS., Bookbinding in Great Britain Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century,
Catalogue 893, Spring 1964

316. MAGGS BROS, Catalogue 1098 Comprising a Large Collection of Books on Book
Binding… The Majority from the Library of E. P. Womersley, Summer 1989

317. MAGGS BROS., Bookbinding in Great Britain, Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century,
4to, London, 1975

318. MEALY’S, Two Important Sales, Rare Books, Bindings, Irish Maps etc, December
2008

319. MEALY’S, Two Important Sales, Rare Books, Bindings, Irish Maps etc, December
2008

320. Modern British Bookbinding, exhibition catalogue, Bibliotheca Wittockiana,

Brussels & Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, 1985

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321. Modern British Bookbindings An Exhibition of modern British bookbinding
by Members of Designer Bookbinders, 31 collotype plates, original printed wrapper, 4to,
London, Designer Bookbinders, 1971

322. MORRIS, ELLEN K. & LEVIN, EDWARD S. with MCLEAN, RUARI, The Art of
Publishers’ Bookbindings 1815-1915, An Exhibition held at The Grolier Club, 4to, New York,
2000

323. N. J. HILL & Co., Bookbinders’ Requisites 1795-1955, 54pp., illustrated catalogue of
bookbinders equipment, original printed wrapper, 4to, London, 1955

324. PERIOD BOOKBINDERS ARCHIVE, A small archive of correspondence and

receipts for book repairs sent from various libraries and customers including Albion
Chambers, Pewsey Books, Sothebys, Birmingham University Library, University of Exeter
Library, c.30 items, v.s., 1996-2009

325. PHILIPS IPSWICH, Bookbinding Tools, Equipment, Paper & Leather from the
Workshop of the late Arthur Henry Llewellin, 2 March 1989

326. PHILIPS ST. IVES, The Sale of the Contents of The Cockerell Bindery, 27 March,
1990

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327. PHILIPS ST. IVES, The Sale of the Contents of the Cockerell Bindery, 1990

328. Ratchford Limited, illustrated catalogue, [2015?]

329. RAYMOND ELGAR, Bookbinders Machine Cut Type and Handtools on Super
Quality Engravers Brass Materials, 1997

330. RED BRIDGE INTERNATIONAL, Price List, 1991

331. The Rose Bindery, tipped in coloured frontispiece and 6 plates, ex-libris of Rye
Public Library The Ronald Macdonald Memorial Room, publishers cloth backed boards, 4to,
Boston, for The Rose Bindery Company, 1925

332. RUSSELL BOOKCRAFTS HITCHIN, Catalogue, 1963

333. SANGORSKI, F. AND SUTCLIFFE, G., A Retail Catalogue of Some Books Bound…,
4pp., 4to, London, O. Anacker, [1941]

334. SANGORSKI, F. AND SUTCLIFFE, G., Book Binding by F. Sangorski and G.

Sutcliffe, 6pp. Folding cortina, printed both sides, 4to, London, [1937]; with two proof sheets
with annotations and corrections by George Sutcliffe.

335. SANGORSKI, F. AND SUTCLIFFE, G., Price List of Tools and Materials for
Bookbinding, 8pp., including forwarding tools, finishing tools, and materials, original blue
wrapper, stapled, 12mo, London,

336. SIMON FINCH RARE BOOKS, English An Exploration of Englishness in Books,

Manuscripts and Art From c.1230 to 2004, 2004

337. SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN & BENJAMIN SPADEMAN, 230 Years of Bookbinding,

December 2021

338. Solander Cases and Print Boxes, [8]pp.,original printed wrapper with portrait of
Solander mounted on, 12mo., London, Henry T. Wood, 1932

339. SOTHEBY’S, Six Centuries of Bookbinding, 7 November, 2002

340. SOTHEBY’S, Catalogue of Highly Important Modern French Illustrated Books and
Bindings Forming Part V of the Celebrated Library of the Late Major J.R. Abbey, 1970

341. SOTHEBY’S, Catalogue of the Celebrated Library The Property of The Late Major
J.R. Abbey Sold by Order of the Executors The Sixth Portion, 1970

342. SOTHEBY’S, The Book as Art Modern Illustrated Books and Fine Bindings, Part II,
21st November, 1995

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343. SOTHEBY’S, The Wardington Library Bibles, London, 12 July, 2006

344. SOTHEBY’S, The Library of Humphrey Winterton, London, 28 and 29 May, 2003

345. SOURGET, PATRICK ET ELISABETH, Manuscrits et Livres Precieux, 10 vol,

illustrated catalogues, publisher’s cloth, original wrapper, small folio, Paris, 1990-2001

346. STEVE FINER RARE BOOKS, Books About Books, Paper & Paper Making, Printing,
Publishing, Technology Trade Catalogues, Catalogue 198, n.d.

347. Stuart Wright: A Life in Collecting, Joyner Library Presents, September 7, 2011

348. Stuart Wright Publisher, Author List, 1983

349. TEMPLE BOOKBINDERS, Quality Bookbinders and Restorers, Catalogue,n.d.

350. Textile and Embroidered Bindings, FIRST EDITION, numerous text illustrations,
8vo, Oxford, Bodleian, 1971

351. URSUS RARE BOOKS, Catalogue 253 Rare Books, n.d.

352. W. HAMPSON PRESS MANUFACTURER, A List of Articles Manufactured and

333.-335. SANGORSKI, F. AND SUTCLIFFE, G.

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Sold at…, 1pp., typed price list, central vertical and horizontal fold, includes a variety of
ornamental rolls, tools and blocks as well as brass type, cutting presses and graining boards,
folio, London, Thomas Harrild, c.1890

353. WRIGHTMAN, ANDREW Booksellers Receipt, A list of books that come to the sum
of £25, thirteen shillings and threepence, with a letter which reads “Received of Sir Philip
Musgrave Bart., the sum of Twenty five pounds thirteen shillings and three pence as per Bill
Dividends” signed “Andrew Wrightman”, mailing folds, blind postal stamp, 25th August,
1825

353. WRIGHTMAN, ANDREW, Bookseller Receipt,

25th August, 1825.

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GENERAL REFERENCE MATERIAL

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354. A Chat About Bookbinding, steel engraved illustrations, text illustrations, rear
advertisement leaf present, preserved in a folio, 4to, Reprinted from ‘The Hour Glass’ for
September 1887

355. ADAMS, FEDERICK B., Bookbindings by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, An Exhibition at

The Pierpont Morgan Library September 3-November 4 1968, 20 black and white plates, 32,
[1]pp., original printed wrapper, 4to, New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969

356. ADAMS, JOHN, The House of Kitcat A Story of Bookbinding 1798-1948, lithograph
frontispiece, 7 lithograph plates, publishers orange cloth, 4to, London, Published for Private
Circulation by G. J. Kitcat LTD, 1948

357. ADOCK, K.J., Leather from the Raw Material to the Finished Product, illustrated
frontispiece, numerous text illustrations, one folding plate, publishers green cloth, 8vo,
London, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, c.1950s

358. AITKEN, E. M., Hobbies, Leisure Time Library, First Edition, publishers blue cloth,
8vo, London, Associated Newspapers, [1925]

359. ALIVON, PASCAL, Styles et Models Guide des styles de dorure et de decoration des
reliures, numerous text illustrations, publishers printed cover, 8vo, Paris, Art Noville, 1990

360. [ART AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT] HANDICRAFT IN THE SCHOOL, FIRST

EDITION, 5 vol., colour plates, text illustrations, publishers khaki cloth, olive green title and
pictorial design showing rider and dragon to front cover, spine gilt, oblong 8vo, London,
Gresham Publishing Company, [1910]

A scarce set of educational books inspired by Arts and Crafts philosophy and design.
Although intended for students formally training in handicraft, the volumes offer excellent
discussions and illustrations for anyone interested in the period. Gresham publishing
company was known for their production of large, handsome reference books, many of which
were designed by Talwin Morris. Protected in a custom wooden case.

361. ASHMAN, JOHN, Bookbinding A Beginner’s Manual, text illustrations by Tig Sutton,
4to, London, Adam and Charles Black, 1983

362. BALL, DOUGLAS, Victorian Publishers’ Bindings, FIRST EDITION, 12 plates,

numerous text illustrations, publishers cloth, original dust jacket, 8vo, Williamsburg, The
Book Press, 1995

363. BALLARD, P.B., The Cultural Value of Handicraft, woodcut device on title, 12.pp,
decorative wrapper, 8vo, Leicester, The Dryad Press, c.1934

364. BANNISTER, MANLY, Pictorial Manual of Bookbinding, numerous text illustrations,

New York, The Ronald Press Company, 1958

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 360. [ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT]
HANDICRAFT IN THE SCHOOL, [1910]

365. BANNISTER, MANLY, Bookbinding as a Handcraft, numerous text illustrations,

publishers printed boards, 4to, New York, Sterling Publishing Co., 1975

366. BARBER, GILES, The James A. Rothschild Bequest at Waddesdon Manor, The
National Trust, Printed books and Bookbindings, 2 vols., numerous text illustrations,
publishers blue cloth, original dust jackets, folio, by the Rothschild Foundation, 2013

367. BARROW, W. J., Manuscripts and documents Their Deterioration and Restoration,
Printed decorative boards, 4to, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1955

This was Barrow’s first study on paper printed here for the first time.

368. BAYNES-COPE, A. D., Caring for Books and Documents, with illustrations by Sture
Akerstrom, original printed boards, 4to, for the Trustees of the British Museum, 1981

369. BEEBY, K. J., The Wonderful Story of Leather, text illustrations original printed
wrapper, 8vo, London, by The Leather Institute, c.1950

370. BENTLEY, G.E., The Edwardses of Halifax The Making and Selling of Beautiful
Books in London and Halifax, 1749-1826, 8 coloured plates, text illustrations, publishers

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cloth, original dust jacket, 8vo, Toronto, University of Toronto Press,2015

371. BENNETT, STUART, Trade Bookbinding in the British Isles 1660-1800, numerous
coloured text illustrations, publishers red cloth, original dust jacket, folio, Oak Knoll and
British Library, 2004

372. BERNARD, GEORGES, La reliure d’art dans le Benelux, Kunstboekbinden in de

Benelux, 1988

373. BEVAN, G. PHILIPS, British Manufacturing Industries, FIRST EDITION, steel

engraved folding plate, publishers maroon cloth, 8vo, London, Edward Stanford, 1876

374. BLADES, WILLIAM, The Enemies of Books, title in red and black, illustrated
frontispiece, numerous text illustrations, publishers green cloth, 8vo, London, Elliot Stock,
1888

375. Blatterfur Buchgestaltung und Buchpflege, FIRST EDITION, 24pp., text

illustrations, ex-libris, rubber stamp to title verso, original printed wrapper, 4to, Leipzig,
Bund Meister der Einbandkunst, c.1970

376. BODLEIAN PICTURE BOOKS, Gold-Tooled Bookbindings, FIRST EDITION, 24

monographs, original printed wrapper, 8vo, Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1951

377. Bookbinding in America, Three Essays: Early American Bookbinding by Hand

by Hannah Dustin French of Wellesley College Library, The Rise Of American Edition
Binding by Joseph W. Rogers of Milwaukee Public Library, On the Rebinding of Old Books
by Hulmut Lehmann-Haupt of Columbia University, FIRST EDITION, numerous text
illustrations, publishers cloth, 8vo, Portland, The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1941

378. Bookplates and Inscriptions Sometimes found in old books, text illustrations,
publishers printed wrapper, 8vo, Ex Libris Press, 2013

379. Book Cover Designing, numerous text illustrations, 2 chromolithograph folding

plates, title supplied, rebound, cloth backed decorative boards, new endpapers, 8vo,
Scranton, International Textbook Company, 1905

380. Bound By Bayntun-Riviere, numerous full colour text illustrations, publishers green
wrapper, 4to, Bath, 2016

381. BOYCE, BARRINGTON, Progressive Bookcraft, coloured frontispiece, text

illustrations, ex-libris, rubber stamp to title, publishers decorative boards, 4to, London,
Humphrey Milford, 1933

382. BRASSINGTON,W. SALT, A History of the Art of Bookbinding. With Some

Account of the Books of the Ancients., chromolithograph frontispiece, title in red and black,
9 chromolithograph plates, tissue guards, text illustrations, publishers decorative brown

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cloth with an elaborate design of a hunting scene with two dogs and a stag, 4to, New York,
Macmillan, 1893

A nice copy of this important book, covering the entire history of bookbinding up to the
nineteenth century.

383. BRENNI, VITO J., Bookbinding A Guide to the Literature, FIRST EDITION,
publishers decorative cloth, 8vo, London, Greenwood Press, 1982

384. BRESLAUER, B.H. & TOULET, J. Historic and artistic bookbindings from the
Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana, FIRST EDITION, folding colour frontispiece,
numerous monograph and full colour text illustrations, folio, Brussels, Bibliotheca
Wittockiana, 1986

385. The British Federation of Master Printers, Rationalisation of Book Production

Book Binding, 10pp., original publishers wrapper, 8vo, London, for The British Federation of
Master Printers and The Publishers Association,1970

386. BROOMHEAD, FRANK, The Zaehnsdorfs (1842-1947) Craft Bookbinders, FIRST

EDITION, plates, text illustrations, 8vo, maroon cloth, Private Libraries Association, 1986

382. BRASSINGTON, W. SALT, A History of the Art

of Bookbinding, 1893.

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387. BROWN, MARGARET WRIGHT, Library Handbook No. 6, Mending and Repair of
Books, Second Edition, 22p., c.100 blank leaves, ex-libris, rubber stamps to title, black cloth,
spine gilt, 8vo, Chicago, American Library Association, 1910

388. BURDETT, ERIC, The Craft of Bookbinding, FIRST EDITION, numerous text
illustrations, 8 coloured plates, publishers cloth, original dust jacket, 8vo, Vancouver, David
and Charles, 1975

389. CALLERY, BERNADETTE G. & MOSIMANN, ELIZABETH A., The

Tradition of Fine Bookbinding in the Twentieth Century, numerous monochrome text
illustrations, publishers printed boards, tall 4to, Pennsylvania, Hunt Institute for Botanical
Documentation, Carnegie-Mellon University and Davis & Warde, 1979

390. CARTER, JOHN Publisher’s Cloth An Outline History of Publisher’s Binding in

England 1820-1900, First Edition, publishers half cloth over printed boards, rubbed, 12mo,
New York, R.R. Bowker, 1935

391. THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Festina Lente Gold-Tooled

Bindings and Gilt Papers from the Bibliotheca Albana In Urbino now in The Clementine
Library, 4to, Washington D.C., 1990

392. CENTRAL YOUTH EMPLOYMENT EXECUTIVE, Bookbinding and Printers

Warehouse Work, Choice of Careers New series No. 49, numerous text illustrations, ex-
libris, publishers printed wrapper, 8vo, London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, May 1953

393. CENTRAL YOUTH EMPLOYMENT EXECUTIVE, Bookbinding and Printers

Warehouse Work, Choice of Careers New series No. 49, numerous text illustrations, ex-
libris, publishers printed wrapper, 8vo, London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, May 1953

394. CHAMBERS, ANNE, Suminagashi The Japanese Art of Marbling A Practical Guide,
FIRST EDITION, publishers black boards, original dust jacket, 4to, Thames and Hudson,
1991

395. CHIDLEY, JOHN, Discovering Book Collecting, text illustrations, small 8vo, Shire
Publications, 1983

396. CLAPPERTON, R.H., Paper and its Relationship to Books, FIRST EDITION, ex-
libris, contemporary printed wrapper, 12mo, London and Toronto, 1934

397. CLOUGH, ERIC A., Bookbinding for Librarians, FIRST EDITION, illustrated
frontispiece, text illustrations, Ex-Libris, original decorative boards, 8vo, London,
Association of Assistant Librarians, 1957

398. COBDEN-SANDERSON, T.J., The Journals of Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson

1879-1922, 2 vols., illustrated frontispieces, publishers red cloth, 8vo, New York, Burt
Franklin, 1969

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Active member of the arts and crafts movement, friend of Morris and famed for his
bookbinding and private press publishing.The journals include Cobden-Sanderson’s account
of the famous episode following the closure of the Doves Press: ‘31st August, 12 midnight.
The Doves Press type was designed after that of Jensen; this evening I began its destruction. I
threw three pages into the Thames from Hammersmith Bridge’ [Volume II, p. 296].

399. COCKERELL, DOUGLAS & ROOKE, NOEL (ILLUSTRATOR), Bookbinding,

and the Care of Books, A Text-book for Book-Binders and Librarians, In the Artistic Crafts
Series of Technical Handbooks, illustrated frontispiece, 8 collotype plates, publishers cloth
backed blue boards, London, Sir Isaac Pitman, 1927

400. COCKERELL, DOUGLAS, Some Notes on Bookbinding, illustrated frontispiece, text

illustrations by Doris Meyer, contemporary marbled boards, 8vo, Oxford University Press,
Humphrey Milford, 1929

401. COCKERELL, DOUGLAS, Bookbinding, and the Care of Books…, text illustrations by
Noel Rooke, publishers boards, original dust jacket, 8vo, London, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons,
1948

402. COCKERELL, DOUGLAS, Bookbinding As A School Subject, Stage I Binding Books

of one Section, Third Edition, original printed wrapper, spine reinforced with tape, 8vo,
Hitchin, G.W. Russel and Son, c.1940s

403. COCKERELL, DOUGLAS, Bookbinding As A School Subject Stage III Cutting edges
and Binding in half and whole leather, Second Edition, original printed wrapper, spine
reinforced with tape, 8vo, Hitchin, G.W. Russel and Son, c.1940s

404. COCKERELL, DOUGLAS, Bookbinding as a School Subject Stage IV Lettering and

Simple Tooling, Revised Edition, original printed wrapper, spine reinforced with tape, 8vo,
Hitchin, G.W. Russell, 1945

405. COCKERELL, SYDNEY M, The Repairing of Books, FIRST EDITION, ex-libris with
rubber stamp to title, illustrated frontispiece, text illustrations, publishers black cloth, 8vo,
London, Shepherd Press, 1958. Scarce First Edition

406. COCKERELL, SYDNEY M., The Repairing of Books, numerous text illustrations by
Joan Rix Tebbutt, publishers black cloth, original dust jacket, 8vo, London, Shepherd Press,
1958

407. COLLINS, A. F., Book Crafts For Juniors, numerous text illustrations, publishers
cloth, original dust jacket, 8vo, Leicester, The Dryad PRess, 1967

408. COMENIUS, JOHANN AMOS, Comenius on the Book, the Text and Images Relating
to the Production Distribution and Use of the Book, publishers printed wrapper, 8vo,
Westmoreland, Boetharson Press, 2006

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409. Conservation of Scrapbooks and Albums Postprint of the Book and Paper
Group/ Photographic Materials Group Joint Session at the 27th Annual Meeting of the
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, June 11, 1999, St. Louis
Missouri,

410. CORDEROY, JOHN, Bookbinding for Beginners, FIRST EDITION, numerous text
illustrations by Eric Sweet, publishers printed boards, 8vo, London, Studio Vista, 1967

411. CLEMENTS, JEFF, Bookbinding, FIRST EDITION, 4 plates, illustrated frontispiece

and numerous text illustrations, publishers orange boards, original dust jacket, slim 8vo,
London, Arco Publications, 1963

412. CLOONAN, MICHELE VALERIE, Early Bindings in Paper…, FIRST EDITION, text
illustrations, original printed boards, 8vo, London, Mansell, 1991

413. CRAIG, MAURICE, Irish Bookbindings 1600-1800, FIRST EDITION, coloured

frontispiece, 58 monochrome plates, publishers blue cloth, original dust jacket, London,
Cassell and co., 1954

414. CRAIG, MAURICE, Irish Bookbinding, The Irish Heritage Series 6, folding
chromolithograph frontispiece, numerous full colour text illustrations, original printed
wrapper, 8vo, Dublin, Eason and Son, 1976

415. CRAIG, MAURICE, Irish Bookbinding, The Irish Heritage Series 6, folding
chromolithograph frontispiece, numerous full colour text illustrations, original printed
wrapper, 8vo, Dublin, Eason and Son, 1976

416. CRAIG, MAURICE, Irish Bookbinding, The Irish Heritage Series 6, folding
chromolithograph frontispiece, numerous full colour text illustrations, original printed
wrapper, 8vo, Dublin, Eason and Son, 1976

417. CUNDALL, JOSEPH, On Bookbindings Ancient and Modern, FIRST EDITION,

Lithograph frontispiece, 28 lithograph plates, tissue guards, title in red and black, publishers
navy cloth, 4to, London, George Bell and Sons, 1881

418. DANA, JOHN COTTON, Notes on Bookbinding for Libraries, text illustrations,
publishers blue cloth, 8vo, Chicago, 1906

419. DANFORTH, SUSAN, A Matter of Taste Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century Book

Collecting, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Rare Books from the John Carter Brown Library,
FIRST EDITION, illustrated frontispiece, coloured text illustrations, publishers red cloth
with gilt device in centre, 4to, Providence, Rhode Island, for The John Carter Brown Library,
2008

420. DANFORTH, SUSAN, A Matter of Taste Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century Book

Collecting Catalogue of an Exhibition of Rare Books from the John Carter Brown Library,

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numerous full colour text illustrations, publishers red cloth, 4to, Providence, The John Carter
Brown Library, 2008

421. DARLEY, LIONEL S., Introduction to Book Binding, numerous text illustrations, 8
monograph plates, publishers cloth, original dust jacket, price clipped, 8vo, London, Faber
and Faber, 1965

422. DAVENPORT, CYRIL, English Embroidered Bookbindings, chromolithograph

frontispiece, decorative title in red and black, 52 lithograph plates, tissue guards, publishers
green cloth, 4to, London, Kagan Paul, Trench and Trubner, 1899

423. DAVENPORT, CYRIL, Roger Payne English Bookbinder of the Eighteenth Century,
illustrated frontispiece, 32 collotype prints, 6 in colour, text illustrations, tissue guards,
publishers red cloth, 4to, Chicago, The Caxton Club, 1929

424. DE LA MARE, RICHARD, A Publisher on Book Production (The Sixth Dent

Memorial Lecture), FIRST EDITION, ex-libris, contemporary half calf over printed boards,
12mo, London, J. M. Dent and Sons, 1936

425. DE TOLDO, VITTORIO, 37 plates, 8 coloured,ex-libris, publishers printed boards,

4to, London, B.T. Batsford, 1925

426. DEVAUX, YVES, Dix Siecles de Reliure, FIRST EDITION, numerous text illustrations,
publishers brown cloth, original dust jacket, folio, Paris, Editions Pygmalion, 1977

Left: 398. COBDEN-SANDERSON, T.J., The Journals of Thomas James

Cobden-Sanderson 1879-1922, 1969
Right: 422. DAVENPORT, CYRIL, English Embroidered Bookbindings, 1899

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427. DICKINSON, JOHN, A Treatise on Account Books, text illustrations, original printed
wrapper, 12mo, John Dickinson and co., 1953

428. DIEHL, EDITH, Bookbinding Its Background and Technique, 2 vols., illustrated
frontispiece, numerous plates, publishers black cloth, 8vo, Washington, Kennikat Press, 1965

429. DONELLY, R.R., A Rod for the Back of the Binder, Chicago, FIRST EDITION, 16
plates, dark cloth on boards with cloud pattern and gold title on a red title piece,4to, The
Lakeside Press, 1928

430. DOYLE, A., Hugh Hutchinson Bookbinder of Durham c.1662 or 1665-95, From The
Book Collector, Spring 1975, original printed wrapper, 8vo, n.d.

431. DUFF, GORDON, FIRST EDITION, decorative half title, illustrated frontispiece, tissue
guard, title in red and black, numerous lithograph plates, publishers red cloth, 8vo, London,
Kagan Paul, Trench, Trubner and co., 1893

432. DUNCAN, ALASTAIR & BARTHA, GEORGES DE, Art Nouveau and Art Deco
Bookbinding, The French Masterpieces 1880-1940, numerous coloured text illustrations,
publishers red cloth, original dust jacket, folio, London, Thames and Hudson, 1989

433. EGGELING, ARTHUR, Bookbinding by Hand, FIRST EDITION, text illustrations,

publishers printed cloth, 4to, New York, Eggeling Bookbindery, 1925

434. ES-SOFIANI, ABOU EL-ABBAS AHMED BEN MOHAMMED, Art De La Relire

et de la Dorure, second edition, original printed wrapper, 8vo, Paris, Libraire Orientaliste
Paul Geuthner, 1925

435. EVANS, EMRYS & GROVER, RACHEL, The Birdshall Collection of Bookbinders’
Finishing Tools, numerous text illustrations, publishers printed wrapper, 8vo, University of
Toronto Library Department of Rare Books & Special Collections, 1972

436. FARLEIGH, JOHN, The Creative Craftsman, FIRST EDITION, 42 plates, text
illustrations, publishers cloth, original dust jacket, 8vo, London, G. Bell and Sons, 1950

437. FLETCHER, WILLIAM YOUNGER., English Bookbindings, 80, [1].pp., 9 coloured

plates, tissue guards, text illustrations, name and date on front free endpaper, occasional
slight spotting, quarter-morocco over marbled boards, 8vo, London, Seeley and Co., 1896

438. FLETCHER, WILLIAM YOUNGER., The Portfolio Monographs on Artistic

Subjects with Many Illustrations Published Monthly; No. 10 Bookbinding in France,
chromolithograph frontispiece and 7 plates heightened with gold, tissue guards, original
wrapper preserved, royal 8vo, London, Seeley and co., 1895; [bound with] DAVENPORT,
CYRIL, The Portfolio Monographs on Artistic Subjects with Many Illustrations Published
Monthly; No. 30 Royal English Bookbindings, chromolithograph frontispiece and 7 plates
heightened with gold, tissue guards, original wrapper preserved, royal 8vo, London, Seeley

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and co., 1896

439. FOOT, MIRJAM M., A Collection of Bookbindings, 3 Vol., text illustrations, Vol.1
quarter red morocco over buckram, Vol. 2 and 3 full buckram, folio, London, The British
Library, 1978-1983

440. FOOT, MIRJAM, The History of Bookbinding as a Mirror of Society, The Panizzi
Lectures 1997, FIRST EDITION, publishers decorative wrapper, 8vo, London, The British
Library, 1998

441. FOOT, MIRJAM M., The Decorated Bindings in Marsh’s Library, Dublin, numerous
text illustrations, some in full colour, publishers boards, 8vo, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004

442. FOOT, MIRJAM M., Studies in the History of Bookbinding, numerous text
illustrations, publishers blue cloth, 4to, Scolar Press, 1993

443. FOOT, MIJAM M., Bookbinders at Work Their Role and Methods, numerous text
illustrations and full colour plates, publishers boards, original dust jacket, 4to, London, The
British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2006

444. FOOT, MIRJAM M. (Editor), Eloquent Witnesses Bookbindings and Their History,
A Volume of Essays dedicated to the memory of Dr Phiroze Randeria, numerous plates,
publishers cloth, original dust jacket, 8vo, The Bibliographical Society, The British Library
and Oak Knoll Press, 2004

445. FORDE, HELEN, Domesday Preserved, text illustrations, original printed wrapper,
4to, London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1986

446. GERMAN, R. L. (for Malayan Civil Services), Handbook to British Malaya,

FIRST EDITION, numerous text illustrations, folding chromolithograph map, second map in
rear pocket, publishers decorative boards, small 4to, Malayan Civil Services, [1935]

447. GIBSON, STRICKLAND, Early Oxford Bindings, title in red and black, large paper
copy, 69pp, 40 photolithograph or lithograph plates, buckram backed printed boards, 4to, for
the Bibliographical Society at The Oxford University Press, January 1903.

Gibson provides “A contribution to the history of bookbinding at Oxford down to the period
of the civil war; it treats solely of bindings decorated with stamps and rolls to the exclusion of
all gilt-tooled work” -from the preface. This work 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).

448. GOODGER, F., Bob the Binder’s Progress, FIRST EDITION, illustrated, decorated and
blocked Linson Vellum by Torriani of Milan, endpapers decorated with a butterfly pattern by
John Buckland Wright, slim landscape 8vo, Leicester, The Grange Fibre, 1955.

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Linson Vellum was a strong and well-made art-vellum produced in Leicester. This book
is an attractively produced volume reproducing the much admired “Bob the Binder”
advertisements for Linson products in the 1950s.

449. GRAY, GEORGE J., The Earlier Cambridge Stationers & Bookbinders and the
First Cambridge Printer, FIRST EDITION, title in red and black, 28 collotype plates of
bookbindings, rebound in half red morocco marbled endpapers, ex-library, pages uncut, 4to,
for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, October 1904

450. GREENFIELD, JANE and HILLE, JENNY, Headband How To Work Them,
second, revised edition, with two additional headband variants not covered in the first
edition, text diagrams, unbound in quires as published, marks indicating where to stitch
printed on quire folds, preserved in original printed envelope, 8vo, Delaware, Oak Knoll
Books, 1990

451. GRIGGS, WILLIAM, A Collection of Four Chromolithograph Prints, each print shows
a royal bookbinding, heighted in gilt, marginal toning, 4to, n.d.

William Griggs contributed to the invention of photo-chromo-lithography, and used this

method, as well as collotype, heliogravure, and others to achieve the splendid results seen in
his chromolithographs. His meticulous work led art historian Martin Hardie to declare that
but for “Griggs’ brilliant and painstaking work, chromolithography as a means of illustrating
would be almost a lost art, like that of coloured aquatint.”

452. The Growing World; or, Progress of Civilization, and the Wonders of Nature,
Science, Literature and Art, Interspersed with a Useful and Entertaining Collection of
Miscellany by the best authors of our day, 512, [4] pp, steel engraved frontispiece and text
illustrations, small hole to frontispiece and title not affecting text, two decorative binding
samples mounted on rear board, publishers decorative boards, rubbed, printed endpapers,
4to, Philadelphia, Chicago and Kansas City, W. M. Peterson, 1882

453. HALLIDAY, J. Bookbinding as a Handwork Subject Being A Full Explanation of How

Books Can be Bound with Simple Apparatus in a School Classroom, illustrated frontispiece,
numerous text illustrations, publishers orange cloth, 8vo, London, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons,
1930

454. HARRISON, T., Bookbinding for Printers, original printed wrapper, 8vo, for Private
Circulation by Association of Teachers of Printing and Allied Subjects, 1949

455. HARRISON, T., Bookbinding for Printers, Number 2. A.T.P.A.S Handbooks for
Teacher, original publishers wrapper, 8vo, for Private Circulation by Association of Teachers
of PRinting and Allied Subjects, 1949

456. HARROP, DOROTHY A. Philip Smith at Eighty, Pamphlet no. 1, original printed
wrapper, 8vo, Designer Bookbinders Publication, 2008

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457. HARTHAN, JOHN P., Bookbindings, FIRST EDITION, numerous full page text
illustrations, rebound in red cloth, original wrapper preserved, 8vo, London, His Majesty’s
Stationery Office, 1950

458. HASLUCK, PAUL N., Bookbinding, FIRST EDITION, text illustrations, publishers
green cloth, small 8vo, London, Cassell and Company, 1902

459. HASLUCK, PAUL, Bookbinding, numerous text illustrations, publishers decorative

wrapper, 8vo, London, Cassell & Company, 1940

460. HENRY, FRANCOISE, The Book of Kells, 126 coloured plates, 75 monochrome
text illustrations, publishers orange cloth, preserved in a matching slipcase, folio, London,
Thames and Hudson, 1974

461. HEWITT-BATES, J.S., Bookbinding, 11 plates, publishers maroon cloth, 8vo,

Leicester, The Dryad Press, 1967

462. HIGGINS, WALTER, Pen Practice, FIRST EDITION, 30 numerated plates, original
calf backed decorative boards, small 8vo, London, B.T. Batsford, c.1932

463. HOBSON, G.D., Blind-Stamped Panels in the English Book-Trade c.1485-1555, FIRST
EDITION, 8 plates, ex-libris, rubber stamps to plate margins, original printed wrapper, 4to,
London, The Bibliographical Society, 1944

464. HOBSON, G. D., Maioli, Canevari and Others, FIRST EDITION, 64 monographic
plates (6 coloured), publishers blue cloth, original dust jacket, t.e.g., London, Ernest Benn
Limited, 1926

465. HOBSON, A.R.A., The Book The Literature of Bookbinding, FIRST EDITION, 15pp.,
publishers decorative boards, 8vo, London, for the National Book League by the Cambridge
University Press, 1954

466. HOBSON, ANTHONY, Humanists and Bookbinders The Origin and Diffusion
of The Humanistic Bookbinding 1459-1559 with a census of Historiated Plaquette and
Medallion Bindings of the Renaissance, FIRST EDITION, numerous full page monograph
text illustrations, publishers brown cloth, original dust jacket, folio, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1989

467. HOLME, CHARLES, The Art Of The Book, publishers brown cloth, original dust
jacket, folio, London, Studio Editions, 1914

468. HOLMES, R.R, Specimens of Royal Fine and Historical Binding, Selected from
the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, FIRST EDITION, 152 fine chromolithograph plates,
decorative title page, illustrated frontispiece, dedication to Queen Victoria, publishers red
cloth, folio, London, W. Griggs and sons, 1893

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A historical account of plaquette bindings, Canevari, and Farnese.

468. HOLMES, R.R, Specimens of Royal Fine and Historical

Binding, Selected from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle,
1893.

469. HORDEN, JOHN(Editor), Bibliographia Lectures 1975-1988 by recipients of The

Marc Fitch Prize for Bibliography, numerous text illustrations, publishers green cloth,
Oxford, Leopard’s Head Press, 1992

470. HORNE, P. HERBERT, The Binding of Books, An Essay in the History of Gold-
Tooled Bindings, decorative half title, illustrated frontispiece, title in red and black, 12 plates,
tissue guards, bookplate of George Livingstan Nicholas, contemporary half red morocco over
marbled boards, top board loose, 8vo, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1894

471. HOWE, ERIC, A List of London Bookbinders 1648-1815, FIRST EDITION, pages
uncut, original cloth backed boards, 4to, London, The Bibliographical Society, 1950

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472. HURFTON, SUE, Spacing Lettering on Books, 4to, The Society of Bookbinders, 2016

473. ISAAC, PETER, William Lubbock and other Newcastle Bookbinders, with Notes on
Bindings by David Pearson and Nicholas Pickwood, History of the Book Trade in the North,
October 1997

474. JACKSON, WILLIAM, Printed Wrappers of the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth

Centuries, text illustrations, original printed wrapper, 4to, offprint from Harvard Library
Bulletin Volume VI, Number 3, Autumn 1952

475. JOHNSON, ARTHUR W., The Thames and Hudson Manual of Bookbinding, 270
illustrations, some coloured, publishers printed wrapper, 8vo, London, Thames and Hudson,
1978

476. JOHNSON, ARTHUR W., The Thames and Hudson Manual of Bookbinding, 270
illustrations, some coloured, publishers printed wrapper, 8vo, London, Thames and Hudson,
1978

477. KAMPH, JAMIE, Tricks of the Trade, Confessions of a Bookbinder, FIRST EDITION,
numerous text illustrations, publishers cloth, original dust jacket, 8vo, Oak Knoll Press, 2015

478. KAY, J., Bookbinding for Beginners, The Practical Workroom Series, text illustrations,
title ink splattered, original printed wrapper, 8vo, London, Cassell and Company, n.d.

479. KING, EDMUND M. B., Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings 1830-1880, FIRST
EDITION, Pp. xxvi+324, 32 coloured plates (within pagination), black & white text
illustrations, Blue cloth over boards with gilt stamped titles and ornamentation in gilt and
blind on the spine and front cover, The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2003

480. KING, GEOFFREY L., Miniature Antique Maps, An Illustrated Guide for the
Collector, illustrated frontispiece, numerous text illustrations, publishers maroon cloth,
original dust jacket, 8vo, Oxfordshire, Tooley, Adams and Co., 2003

481. KITSON, EDWARD, Bookbinding, FIRST EDITION, ex-libris, rubber stamp to title,
text illustrations, publishers green cloth, 8vo, London, W. & G. Foyle, 1954

482. KLINEFELTER, LEE M., Bookbinding Made Easy, numerous text illustrations, ex-
library, publishers orange cloth, 8vo, New York, The Bruce Publishing Company, 1934

483. LAFFAN, WILLIAM and MONKHOUSE, CHRISTOPHER, Ireland Crossroads

of Art and Design, 1690-1840, numerous coloured text illustrations, publishers green cloth,
dust jacket, folio, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2015

484. LANGWELL, W.H., The Conservation of Books and Documents, FIRST EDITION,
publishers maroon cloth, 8vo, London, Sir Isaac Pitman, 1957

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485. L’Art de Conserver et d’embellir vos livres, 20pp., text illustrations, ornamental
printed wrapper, 8vo, Paris, Institut Artisanal de Relivre, (c.1920s)

486. LEWIS, ROY HARELY, Fine Bookbinding in the Twentieth Century, 33 colour and
82 monochrome illustrations, publishers grey cloth, original dust jacket, 4to, London, David
and Charles, 1984

This book shows the very varied approaches of the different personalities, their superb
craftsmanship and beautiful, stimulating, sometimes controversial, designs.

487. LEIGHTON, DOUGLAS, Modern Bookbinding A Survey and A Prospect (The Fifth
Dent Memorial Lecture), FIRST EDITION, ex-libris, contemporary half green calf over
marbled boards, 12mo, London, J.M. Dent and Sons, 1935

488. LEWIS, A. W., Basic Book-Bindings, 11 plates, publishers printed cover, 8vo, New
York, Dover Publications, 1957

489. The Life and Errors of John Dunton, Citizen of London; With the Lives and
Characters of More than a Thousand Contemporary Devines, and Other Persons of Literary
Eminence to which are added, Dunton’s Conversations in Ireland; Selections from his
other Genuine Works; and a Faithful Portrait of the Author, 2 Vols., engraved portrait
frontispiece, contemporary half blue morocco over marbled boards, 8vo, London, for J.
Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1818

Dunton, an English bookseller and publisher. He is most famous for his autobiographical
memoirs, first published in 1705. He founded The Athenian Society in 1691, with the goal to
publish The Athenian Mercury, the first major periodical and first miscellaneous periodical in
England.

489. The Life and Errors of John Dunton, 1818

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490. LINDSAY, JEN., Fine Bookbinding a technical guide, 4to, The British Library,2009

491. LOPEZ-VIDRIERO, MARIA LUISA, Great Bindings from the Spanish Royal
Collections 15th-21st centuries, FIRST EDITION, numerous full colour text illustrations,
publishers cloth backed decorative boards, 4to, Patrimonio Nacional, [2012]

492. LOUDON, J.H., James Scott and William Scott, Bookbinders, FIRST EDITION,
coloured frontispiece, text illustrations, publishers brown cloth, original dust jacket, 8vo,
Scholar Press in association with the National Library of Scotland, 1980

“The output of the Edinburgh binders James and William Scott stands out in the work of
eighteenth-century Scottish bookbinders. Though few William Scott bindings are known
today, a substantial number of James’ bindings have survived: his work was characterised
by its clean break from the Scottish geometrical style of binding ornament towards a style
aimed at the kind of people who would be the patrons of Chippendale or Adam and might be
expected to want to won bookbindings which would fittingly adorn their houses. This work
gives detailed descriptions of all known Scott bindings and includes full-page reproductions
of all but a few. It also examines in detail (and reproduces) the tools and rolls employed”

493. LYONS, MARTYN, Books A Living History, FIRST EDITION, 266 text illustrations
(214 in colour), publishers printed cover, 4to, London, Thames and Hudson, 2013

494. MADDOCK, PHILIP, Exquisite & Rare Bookbindings from the Library of Benjamin
Guinness 3rd Earl of Iveagh, numerous full colour illustrations, publishers printed cover,
4to, Dublin, Hudson Kileen, 2013

495. MARIE, ANDRE, La Reliure Originale, 28 collotype plates, errata slips present,
publishers original wrapper, small 4to, Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, La Reliure Originale,
1953

496. MARKS, P.J.M., Beautiful Bookbindings, A Thousand Years of the Bookbinder’s Art,
coloured text illustrations, publishers brown cloth, original dust jacket, folio, London, The
British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2011

497. MATTHEWS, WILLIAM F. Simple Bookbinding for Junior Schools, text

illustrations, contemporary cloth backed decorative boards, 8vo, London, Sir Isaac Pitman
and Sons, 1930

498. MCDONNELL, JOSEPH & HEALY, PATRICK, Studies in the History of Irish
Bookbinding: 1 Gold-Tooled Bookbindings Commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in the
Eighteenth Century, numerous coloured text illustrations, publishers blue cloth, original dust
jacket, Irish Georgian Society, 1987

499. MCDONNELL, JOSEPH, Five Hundred Years of the Art of the Book in Ireland, 1500
to Present, numerous coloured text illustrations, publishers cloth, original dust jacket, folio,
National Gallery of Ireland in association with Merrell Holberton, 1997

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500. MCGUCKIN, ALEXANDER J., Bookbindings, numerous full page coloured
illustrations, oblong 8vo, for the author, n.d.

501. MCLEAN, RAURI, Victorian Publishers’ Book-Bindings in Cloth and Leather,

numerous text illustrations, publishers blue cloth, original dust jacket, London, Gordon
Fraser, 1974

502. MCLEAN, RAURI, Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing, Second Edition,
numerous text illustrations, publishers cream cloth, original dust jacket, folio, London, Faber
and Faber, 1972

503. MCLEAN, RAURI, Victorian Publishers Book-Bindings in Paper, numerous text

illustrations, publishers printed boards, original glassine dust jacket, folio, London, Gordon
Fraser, 1983

504. MCMUTRIE, DOUGLAS, The Book The Story of Printing & Bookmaking, Third
Edition, publishers cloth, 4to, London, Oxford University Press1943

505. MICHON, LOUIS-MARIE, Le Reliure Francais, FIRST EDITION, 64 text

heliogravures, errata leaf, rebound, cloth backed red morocco, new endpapers, 8vo, Paris,
Librarie Larousse, 1951

506. MIDDLETON, BERNARD C., Recollections A Life in Bookbinding, FIRST EDITION,

portrait frontispiece, text illustrations, publishers brown cloth, original dust jacket, 4to, Oak
Knoll Press & The British Library, 2000

507. MIDDLETON, BERNARD C., The Restoration of Leather Bindings, Third Edition,
publishers maroon cloth, original dust jacket, 4to, Oak Knoll Press and The British Library,
1998

508. MIDDLETON, BERNARD C., Facsimile Printing for Antiquarian Books, publishers
wrapper, 4to, originally published in Bookbinding 2000 Proceedings, Cary Graphic Arts
Press, 2002

509. MIDDLETON, BERNARD C. & NIXON, HOWARD M., A History of English

Craft Bookbinding Technique, chromolithograph frontispiece, numerous text illustrations,
publishers cloth, 8vo, London, The Holland Press, 1978

510. MILLER, JULIA, Books Will Speak Plain A Handbook for Identifying and Describing
Historical Bindings, numerous text illustrations, publishers orange cloth, original dust
jacket, large 8vo, The Legacy Press, 2014

511. MITCHELL, JOHN, The Craftsman’s Guide to Edge Decorations, FIRST EDITION,
text illustrations, 4to, West Sussex, The Standing Press, 1993

512. MITCHELL, JOHN, The Craftsman’s Guide Series An introduction to Gold Finishing,

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Standing Press,1995

513. MITCHELL, WILLIAM SMITH, British Signed Bindings in the Library of King’s
College Newcastle Upon Tyne, original printed wrapper, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1954

514. MITCHELL, WILLIAM SMITH, A History of Scottish Bookbinding 1432 to 1650,

FIRST EDITION 48 plates, publishers red cloth, 8vo, Edinburgh, for the University of
Aberdeen by Oliver and Boyd, 1955

515. MIURA, EINEN, The Art of Marbled Paper, Marbled Patterns and How to Make
Them, numerous coloured text illustrations, publishers cloth, original dust jacket, London,
Zaehnsdorf, 1989

516. MOORE, THOMAS, The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 only, of 14, engraved
frontispiece and half title, publishers cloth, spine gilt, 8vo, London, John Murray, 1832

This odd volume holds an important place in this collection as an example of the first works
published and bound with the use of an Arming Press to create a block title on the spine. For
more information about this process and its significance please see No. 28 and 55.

516. MOORE, THOMAS, The Works of

Lord Byron, 1832.

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517. MUIR, DAVID, Binding and Repairing Books by Hand, numerous text illustrations by
Richard Bawden, publishers red cloth, original dust jacket, 4to, London, B.T. Batford, 1978

518. NEAL, ARTHUR B. (Editor), The Practical Instruction Handbooks, 3 vol.,

chromolithograph frontispieces, numerous plates and text illustrations, publishers red cloth,
small 4to, London, The New Era Publishing, 1931

519. NEEDHAM, PAUL, Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings 400-1600, FIRST EDITION,

coloured frontispiece, 5 coloured plates and numerous monograph text illustrations, red
publishers cloth, original dust jacket, New York/ London, The Pierpont Morgan Library
Oxford University Press, 1979

520. NESBITT, ALEXANDER (editor), 200 Decorative Title-Pages, An Anthology

of Copyright-Free Illustrations for Artists and Designers, numerous text illustrations,
publishers printed cover, 4to, New York, Dover Publications, 1964

521. NIXON, HOWARD M., Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College
Cambridge. FIRST EDITION, 52 plates (some coloured), publishers cloth, original dust
jacket, 4to, Suffolk, D.S. Brewer, Rowman & Littlefield, 1984

The first account of the Pepys bindings to be published.

522. NIXON, HOWARD M., English Restoration Bookbindings Samuel Mearne and his
Contemporaries, coloured frontispiece, exhibition catalogue, ex-libris, library stamps, 4to,
Oxford, University Press, 1974

523. NIXON, HOWARD M., The Development of Certain Styles of Bookbinding, 16pp.,
original printed wrapper, 8vo, The Private Libraries Association, 1963

524. NIXON, HOWARD M., Five Centuries of English Bookbinding, numerous full page
text illustrations, publishers cloth, original dust jacket, price clipped, 8vo, London, Scholar
Press, 1979

525. NIXON, HOWARD M., English Restoration Bookbindings Samuel Mearne and
his contemporaries, 126 plates, coloured illustrated frontispiece, publishers red cloth, 4to,
London, For The British Library Board by British Museum Publications, 1974

526. NIXON, HOWARM M. & FOOT, MIRJAM M., The History of Decorated
Bookbinding in England, 128 plates, some in colour, publishers red boards, 8vo, Oxford,
Clarendon Press, 1992

527. NIXON, HOWARD M., British Bookbinding presented by Kenneth H. Oldekar to

the Chapter Library of Westminster Abbey, numerous collophone plates, publishers orange
cloth, 4to, London, Maggs Bros., 1982

528. NORTH, JAMES SHARP, A Short History of the Art and Craft of Bookbinding,

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FIRST EDITION, 3 plates, publishers original wrapper, 8vo, Brighton, Central Bookbinding
Works, n.d.

529. NORTON, P. H., Handbook on Book Repairing, text illustrations, publishers red
cloth, 8vo, Dorset, St. John and Red Cross Hospital Library Department, 1952

530. OLDHAM, J. BASIL., Blind Panels of English Binders, FIRST EDITION, 67 black and
white plates, publishers blue cloth, original dust jacket, folio, Cambridge University Press,
1958

Companion volume to the author’s 1952 book, English Blind-Stamped Bindings. Together
the two volumes present an exhaustive study of this decorative element in English
bookbinding from the mid-15th to mid-17th centuries. In the present work, the author defines
“panels,” indicates inclusive dates when they were used in England, and gives his criteria
of “Englishness.” In addition to discussing artists and binders, such as Wynkyn de Worde,
Jacobus Illuminator, and Richard Faques, among others, he reproduces all the different
types of panels that are known and gives them an intelligent system of classification: Acorn;
Animal; Biblical; Heraldic and Rose are just a few. Sixty-seven handsomely produced black
and white plates depict some 250 panels.

531. PAPUT, CHRISTIAN, La Lettre: La Gravure du Poinçon typographique - The

Punchcutting, FIRST EDITION, in English and French, numerous text illustrations,
publishers decorative wrapper, 8vo, TVSO, 1998

532. PEARSON, DAVID, ‘For the Love of the Binding’ Studies in bookbinding history
presented to Mirjam Foot, FIRST EDITION, numerous plates and text illustrations, some in
colour, publishers cloth backed boards, 4to, The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2000

533. PEARSON, DAVID, English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800 A Handbook, text

illustrations, publishers boards, 4to, The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2005

534. PEARSON, DAVID, Durham Bookbinders and Booksellers 1660-1760, 17 plates,

publishers printed wrapper, 4to, Oxford, Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1986

535. PEARSON, DAVID, Oxford Bookbinding 1500-1640, text illustrations, publishers

green cloth, 4to, Oxford, Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2000

536. PERCIVAL, G.S. & GRAHAM, R. A., Unsewn Binding, 8vo, Leicester, The Dryad
Press, 1964

537. PEYRE, YVES & FLETCHER, H. GEORGE, Art Deco Bookbindings The Work of
Pierre LeGrain and Rose Adler, FIRST EDITION, numerous full colour text illustrations,
publishers cloth, 4to, New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 2004

538. [PIRA] PRITCHARD, E.J., BINDERY OPERATIONS, [2], 78pp., 26 35mm colour
photographic slides contained in plastic sleeves inside the rear cover, ex-library, rubber

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stamp to title, internal plastic comb binding in plastic covers, 8vo, Leatherhead, PIRA, 1974

Printing Industry Research Association visual aid kit number 29 “designed primarily to
teach the principles and procedures of operations, often referred to as bindery or warehouse
operations, that are carried out on printed material for book and magazine work prior to
securing the parts together.”

539. [PIRA] GALE, P.R., BOOKBINDING- CASEBINDING. [2], 88pp., 28 35mm colour
photographic slides contained in plastic sleeves inside the rear cover, ex-library, rubber
stamp to title, internal plastic comb binding in plastic covers, 8vo, Leatherhead, Pira, 1974

Printing Industry Research Association visual aid kit number 30 concerning, essentially, the
production of machine case binding ‘intended for apprentices in the bindery, students in
technical colleges and technical salesmen of suppliers to the trade…’

540. [PIRA] PRITCHARD, E. J., UNSEWN, MAGAZINE AND PAMPHLET BINDING,

[2], 83, [6]pp., lacking photographic slides but plastic sleeves present, ex-library, rubber
stamp and barcode sticker to title, internal comb binding in plastic covers, 8vo, Leatherhead,
Pira, 1974

Printing Industry Research Association visual aid kit number 31 “describes the operations
involved in un-sewn, magazine and pamphlet binding from preparation for securing to the
finished product.”

538-540, PIRA, 1974.

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541. PLENDERLEITH, H.J., The Preservation of Leather Bookbindings, text illustrations,
ex-libris, rubber stamp to title, publishers cloth binding, 8vo, London, Order of the Trustees
of the British Museum. 1950

542. PLENDERLEITH, H. J., The Preservation of Leather Bookbindings, text

illustrations, publishers printed boards, 8vo, London, by Order of the Trustees of the British
Museum, 1957

543. PLENDERLEITH, H.J., The Preservation of Leather Bookbindings, text illustrations,

ex-libris, rubber stamp to title, publishers cloth-backed boards, 12vo, London, Order of the
Trustees of the British Museum, 1967

544. POOLE, N. A. & BAKER, M., Bookbinding for Boys and Girls, text illustrations, ex-
libris, publishers printed wrapper, 8vo, London, University of London Press, 1930

545. POWELL, NEIL, & PARKIN, TREVOR. Famous Craftsmen, 32pp., illustrated,
small 12mo, original printed cover, Bancroft, 1967

546. PRIDEAUX, S.T., An Historical Sketch of Bookbinding, FIRST EDITION, lithograph

frontispiece, tissue guard, title in red and black, ex-libris, rubber stamp to frontispiece,
rebound, red cloth, new endpapers, 8vo, London, Lawrence and Bullen, 1893

Sarah Prideaux (1853-1933) was one of the most noted women bookbinders of her day. Her
designs were inspired by Art Nouveau, and she showed at various exhibitions. She studied
under Joseph Zaehnsdorf’s son, Joseph W., and later under Antoine Joy in Paris. An expert
on the history of bookbinding, Prideaux taught, lectured, and wrote articles for journals and
magazines. She taught other notable bookbinders like Katherine Adams. She served as one of
the directors of the Women’s Printing Society.

547. PRIDEAUX, S.T., Bookbinders and Their Craft, FIRST EDITION, title in red and
black, text illustrations, original blue boards, 8vo, New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1903

548. PRINCE, CLARE, Japanese Papermaking Techniques for some Conservation and
Decorative Papers,Pamphlet No. 2, original printed wrapper, 8vo, Designer Bookbinders
Publication 2008

549. PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, Domesday Re-Bound, 8 plates, publishers printed

wrapper, tall 8vo, London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1954

550. RAMSDEN, CHARLES., Bookbinders of the United Kingdom (outside London) 1780-
1840, London, B.T. Batsford, 1987

551. RAMSDEN, CHARLES, London Bookbinders 1780-1840, 40 monograph plates,

publishers green boards, original just jacket, 4to, London, B.T. Batsford, 1987

552. RAMSDEN, CHARLES, French Bookbinders 1789-1848, FIRST EDITION, collotype

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frontispiece, 40 collotype plates, publishers cloth, 4to, London, Lund Humphries, 1950

553. ROBINSON, IVOR, Introducing Bookbinding, text illustrations, ex-library stamps to

title, publishers grey cloth, original dust jacket, square 8vo, London, B. T. Batsford, 1968

554. ROBINSON, IVOR, Introducing Bookbinding, numerous text illustrations, publishers

orange cloth, original dust jacket, 4to, Oxford Polytechnic Press, 1984

555. ROSENBERG, MARGOT & MARCOWITZ, BERN, The Care And Feeding of Books
Old and New, publishers printed wrapper, 8vo, New York, Thomas Dunne Books, 2002

556. ROSENTHAL, JACQUES, Inkunabeln in Gotischen Einbanden, 59 pp., original

printed wrapper, 4to, Munchen, 1924

557. Royal English Bookbindings in the British Museum, FIRST EDITION, text
illustrations, ex-library, later black cloth, original wrapper preserved,8vo, London, for the
Trustees of the British Museum, 1957

558. SANSON, IAN., Paper An Elegy, publishers red cloth, original dust jacket, 8vo,
London, Fourth State, 2012

559. SIGLOCH, Reflections of a Bookbindery, coloured text illustrations, original printed

wrapper, narrow 8vo, Germany, SVA, n.d.

560. SMART, MARIGOLD, Life in England During the Reign of Queen Anne and The
Rebinding of a Bible Printed in 1709, text illustrations, 155, [11] pp, original pink boards,
spiral binding, A4, Southampton Institute of Higher Education, 1989

561. SMITH, F.R., Bookbinding, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, printed boards, London, Sir Isaac
Pitman, 1935

562. SMITH, F. R., Bookbinding, numerous text illustrations, ex-libris, rubber stamp to
title, publishers printed boards, 8vo, London, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1950

563. SMITH, ROMILLY SAUMAREZ, Bookbindings for Eileen Hogan, National Art
Library Landing Victoria and Albert Museum, 2009

564. SMITH, PHILIP, New Directions in Bookbinding, ex-libris, rubber stamp to title,
folio, London, Studio Vista, 1974

565. SMITH, W. H., The Story of W.H. Smith and Son, monograph plates, publishers
printed wrapper, 8vo, London, for Circulation, 1955

566. SOCIÉTÉ DES BIBLIOPHILES ET ICONOPHILES DE BELGIQUE, La Reliure

Romantique, 32 plates, publisher’s printed cover, 8vo, 1961

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567. SOMMERLAD, M. J., Scottish ‘Wheel’ and ‘Herring-bone’ Bindings in the Bodleian
Library An Illustrated Handlist, 4to, Oxford, Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1967

568. SPAWN, WILLMAN, Bookbinding in America 1680-1910 from the Collection of

Frederick E. Maser, colourplate frontispiece, decorated title, 5 colour plates with pagination,
numerous full page text illustrations, publishers blue cloth, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1983

569. SPAWN, WILLIAM & KINSELLA, THOMAS E., Ticketed Bookbindings from
Nineteenth-Century Britain.. With an Essay by Bernard C. Middleton, folio, Bryn Mawr
College Library and Oak Knoll Press, 1999

570. STEPHEN, G. A., Die Moderne Grossbuchbinderei Eine Beschreibung der

Herstellung von Bucheinbanden…, library stamp to title, steel engraved text illustrations,
publishers red cloth, Wien and Leipzig, A. Hartleben, 1910

571. TIDCOMBE, MARIANNE, The Bookbindings of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, coloured

illustrated frontispiece, numerous full page text illustrations, publishers brown cloth, with
matching slipcase, London, The British Library, 1984

572. TIDCOMBE, MARIANNE, The Doves Bindery, coloured frontispiece, numerous full
page monographs, publishers grey cloth, London, The British Library, 1991

573. TIDCOMBE, MARIANNE, Women Bookbinders 1880-1920, numerous text

illustrations and coloured plates, publishers cloth backed decorative boards, 4to, London,
Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 1996

574. TIDCOMBE, MARIANNE FLETCHER, The Bookbinding Career of Rachel

McMasters Miller Hunt, portrait frontispiece, decorative title, text illustrations, cloth backed
marbled boards, 4to, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Hunt Botanical Library, 1974

575. THOMAS, ALAN G., Great Books and Book Collectors, London, Chancellor Press,
1975

576. THOMAS, HENRY., Early Spanish Bookbindings XI-XV Centuries, FIRST EDITION,
Illustrated Monographs issued by the Bibliographical Society No. XXIII, 100 black and
white plates, ex-libris with usual stamps to title, linen backed boards, 4to, London, for the
bibliographical Society at the University Press, Oxford, 1939

577. THOMPSON, FRANCIS, A Collection of Poetry, Third Impression, original cloth

backed decorative boards, Guildford, Billing and Sons, 1934

578. THOMPSON, ELBERT A. & THOMPSON, LAWRENCE S., Fine Binding In

America, FIRST EDITION, illustrated frontispiece on tissue, title in purple and black, text
in purple and black, 4 monograph plates, ex-libris, rubber stamp to title, publishers purple
boards, 8vo, Illinois, Beta Phi Mu, 1956

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“This is the second in a series of chapbooks published by Beta Phi Mu, National Library
Science Honorary Fraternity, as a contribution to the art of book design and the literature of
books and libraries.”

579. THOMPSON, LAWRENCE S., Kurze Geschichte der Handbuchbinderei in den

Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, FIRST EDITION, 32 collotype plates, ex-libris, rubber
stamp to title tail, original printed wrapper, 4to, Stuttgart, Max Hettler Verlag, c.1950s

580. TOMLINSON, WILLIAM & MASTERS, RICHARD, Bookcloth 1813-1980, First

Edition, [5], xvi, 143, [2]A-K, 11 leaves of fabric samples, illustrated frontispiece, publishers
red cloth, t.e.g., preserved in a matching slipcase, 4to, Cheshire, Dorothy Tomlinson, 1996

581. TOWN, LAURENCE, Bookbinding by Hand, numerous text illustrations, one folding
plate, publishers blue cloth, original dust jacket, 8vo, London, Faber and Faber, 1963

582. UDEN, GRANT, Understanding Book-Collecting, publishers cloth, original dust

jacket, 8vo, Aberdeen, Antique Collectors Club, 1982

583. VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, A Picture Book of Bookbindings, Part 1: Before
1550; Part 2: 1550-1800, 2 parts in one, numerous full page monograph plates, rebound in
red cloth, original wrappers preserved, 8vo, London, Under the Authority of the Board of
Education, 1933

584. VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, A Picture Book of Bookbindings, Part 1: Before
1550; Part 2: 1550-1800, 2 parts in one, numerous full page monograph plates, rebound in
red cloth, original wrappers preserved, 8vo, London, Under the Authority of the Board of
Education, 1952

585. THE VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY, The Manufacture and Testing of Durable
Book Papers, Based on the Investigations of W. J. Barrow, original printed wrapper, 8vo,
Richmond, Virginia, Virginia State Library, 1960

586. THE VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY, Permanent/ Durable Book Paper Summary of
a Conference Held in Washington, D. C., September 16, 1960, original printed wrapper, 8vo,
Richmond, Virginia, Virginia State Library, 1960

587. THE VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY, Deterioration of Book Stock Causes and
Remedies, Two Studies on the Permanence of Book Paper Conducted by W. J. Barrow,
original printed wrapper, 8vo, Richmond, Virginia, Virginia State Library, 1959

588. W. J. BARROW RESEARCH LABORATORY, Permanence/ Durability of the Book

A Two Year Research Program, 7 vols., ex-libris, stamps to title, Richmond, Virginia, 1963-
74

589. WEALE, JAMES W. H., Bookbindings and Rubbings of Bindings in the National Art
Library South Kensington Museum, FIRST EDITION, numerous text illustrations, ex-libris,

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rubber stamp to title, publishers cloth, 8vo, London, For Her Majesty’s Stationery Office,
1898

590. WEBB, JOHN., John Philip Edmond Bookbinder, Librarian and Bibliographer of
Aberdeen 1850-1906 a short biography, 29pp., tall 4to, Aberdeen, Aberdeen & North-East
Scotland Family History Society, 2011

591. WEISSE, FRANZ, Der Handvergolder Im Tagaeswerken und Kunstschaffen, text

illustrations, ex-libris, rubber stamp to title, 8vo, Stuttgart, [1951]

592. WESTENDORP, K., Die Kunst Der Alten Buchbinder aur der ausstellung von
bucheinbaenden im alten schloss zu strassburg els veranstaltet im oktober 1907…, 133 text
illustrations, ex-library, rubber stamp to title, later red cloth, 8vo, Halle A.D. Saale, Wilhelm
Knapp, 1909

593. WHETTON, HARRY, Practical Printing and Binding A Complete Guide to the
Latest Developments in All Branches of the Printer’s Craft, FIRST EDITION, illustrated
frontispiece, text illustrations, publishers orange cloth, 8vo, London, Odhams Press, [1946]

594. WHITE, FRANCIS SELLON, A History of Inventions and Discoveries:

Alphabetically Arranged. FIRST EDITION, light foxing, publishers boards, paper label on
spine, 8vo, London, for C. and J. Rivington, 1827

595. WHITFIELD, PETER, A Universe of Books Readings in World Literature, FIRST

EDITION, numerous text illustrations, publishers boards, original dust jacket, 4to,
Wychwood, 2007

596. WHITTLESEA, ADRIAN, Printed at the Golden Fish Press Downside Abbey, original
decorative boards, oblong 8vo, somerset, n.d.

597. WILCOX, ANNIE TREMMEL, A Degree of Mastery, A Journey Through Book Arts
Apprenticeship, FIRST EDITION, illustrated frontispiece, tissue guard, text illustrations,
publishers cloth, original dust jacket, 8vo, Minnesota, New Rivers Press, 1999

598. WILCOX ,MICHEAL & LANDON. RICHARD, In Retrospect Designer

Bookbindings by Micheal Wilcox, photographic frontispiece, numerous coloured text
illustrations one folding plate, oblong 8vo, Toronto, University of Toronto, 1998

599. WILLIAMS, OWEN & LAZZURI, CARYN, Foliomania! Stories Behind

Shakespeare’s Most Important Book, tall folio, Washington, The Folger Shakespeare Library,
2011

600. WILLIAMSON, HUGH, Methods of Book Design The Practical of Industrial Craft,
Second Edition, illustrated frontispiece, 11 plates, numerous text illustrations, publishers
cloth, original dust jacket, 8vo, London, Oxford University Press, 1966

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601. WOODCOCK, JOHN, Binding Your Own Books, Puffin Picture Book 104, numerous
coloured text illustrations, publisher printed wrapper, oblong 8vo, Middlesex, for Penguin
Books, c.1955

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