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Pinner : Private Libraries Association, 1986. First edition : the trade issue, limited to 2,250 copies. The well-illustrated story of one the best-known and most impressive of the London binderies, with biographical material, examination of the work, etc.
Royal 8vo (26cm). [ii],(110)pp. Portraits. Illustrations. Facsimiles. Original maroon cloth; top edge blue; very good.

£20

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London : Faber & Faber, (1959). First edition. An absorbing study of the bookbinding trade from the period of hand-binding, through to the introduction of case-binding in cloth, and the increasing use of mechanised processes – all based on a study of the business founded in Holborn in 1781 by Thomas Burn (1760-1843).
Foolscap 4to (23cm). Plates (two in colour). Illustrations. Original blue cloth, blocked and lettered in red and gilt; top edge yellow; a few spots to top edge; endpapers lightly tanned, but otherwise a very good copy in the dust-jacket – the jacket price-clipped, but with only minor rubbing and also very good.

£25

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Oxford : Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1986. First edition. A study of a dozen Durham bookbinders and booksellers, including John Aisley, Abraham Ashworth, James Dansken, Catherine Waghorn, John Waghorn, William Werdon, and the Durham Insect-Roll Binder. With the separately printed errata slip, explaining the transposition of certain of the plates. Oxford Bibliographical Society Occasional Publication No.19.
Crown 4to (26cm). (xii),(62),[ii]pp. Numerous illustrations of bindings, tools, etc. Original wrappers; a few minor signs of age and use, but a very good copy.

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London : B. T. Batsford, (1987). The 1987 reprint of the original 1954 edition of this extensive directory of the known bookbinders of the period working in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. With an introductory essay on the evaluation of the source materials, etc.
Crown 4to (26cm). (xvi),250,[iv]pp. Sixteen plates. Original boards; top edge very slightly spotted, otherwise very good in dust-jacket.

£25

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London : B. T. Batsford, (1987). The 1987 reprint of the original 1956 edition of this extensive directory of the some 2,000 known London bookbinders of the period. With an introductory essay on the evolution of London binding styles.
Crown 4to (26cm). xiv,(156),[vi]pp. Forty plates. Original boards; a very good copy in a very good dust-jacket.

£20

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