later quarter faux leather with marbled paper covered boards
1999 · Bryn Mawr
by Spawn, Willman and Thomas E. Kinsella
Bryn Mawr: Bryn Mawr College Library & Oak Knoll Press, 1999. later quarter faux leather with marbled paper covered boards. Bookbinding. small 4to. later quarter faux leather with marbled paper covered boards. 206 pages. First edition, a set of the sheets that have been well bound in quarter leather. Well illustrated exhibition catalogue including plates in color. Foreword by Elliot Shore, Director of Libraries followed by historical information on binding. The first 219 bindings are described in great detail including information on the binder. This is followed by shorter descriptions of 485 ticketed bindings also in the collection but not pictured. An important new reference book in the study of English binding.
(Inventory #: 118102)