half red calf over marbled paper covered boards
1925 · Leipzig
by Husung, Max Joseph
Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1925. half red calf over marbled paper covered boards. Bookbinding. folio. half red calf over marbled paper covered boards. vii, (i), 47, (1) pages (in Xerox) followed by 100 plates. First edition. (S-K 967) Max Husung has brought together this selection of outstanding bookbindings from the Preussischen Staatsbibliothek in Berlin. Includes 182 illustrations in 100 plates (black-and-white and color). Each illustration is supplemented with a full description. The bindings illustrated range from Byzantine examples inset with carved ivory vignettes to mediaeval blindstamping to nineteenth-century gilt and filleted types. Original four page prospectus loosely inserted. Preliminary and text pages are present in Xerox and bound in. Scuffing of leather around edges.
(Inventory #: 126710)