Shrewsbury School Library Bindings. Catalogue Raisonné. By J. Basil Oldham

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Colored frontis. & 62 fine plates. Folio, orig. cloth (covers a little spotted), spine gilt. Shrewsbury: Printed for the Library of the Shrewsbury School at the University Press, Oxford, 1943.

Limited to 200 numbered copies. A nice copy of this important and handsome book. The bindings are largely English, though there are a few notable French and Italian examples. Scarce.

Breslauer, The Uses of Bookbinding Literature, p. 24­"a remarkable catalogue.

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