Hand-Bound Books. A Guide for Amateur Bookbinders

  • Providence, RI: The Author, 1935
By BUFFUM, Clara
Providence, RI: The Author, 1935. First edition, number 84 of 500 copies signed by the author. Light wear to the overlapping wrappers, but fine. 8vo (24 x 15.5 cm). 68, [4] pages. Original printed wrappers. Buffum learned her craft from F. P. Hathaway, binder at the Boston Athenaeum and later at the John Carter Brown Library; and Charles McLeish of London, who one time worked for Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery.

Details

Title

Hand-Bound Books. A Guide for Amateur Bookbinders

Author

BUFFUM, Clara

Condition

Fine

Publisher

The Author: Providence, RI

Date

1935

Edition

First edition, number 84 of 500 copies signed by the author


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