cloth
1982 · London
by Nixon, Howard M.
London: Maggs Bros. Ltd, 1982. cloth. Bookbinding. 8vo. cloth. 159 pages. S-K 3527. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. With three colored plates and sixty-eight half-tone illustrations of bindings. All seventy-one bindings are described in detail and are accompanied by an illustration. Includes the work of Harding, Mearne, Bartlett, Edwards of Halifax, Guild of Women-Binders, and others including McLeish and Cockerell. Lightly soiled on the front / rear covers and spine, which were bound upside down. (Inventory #: 134201)