A manual of the art of bookbinding: containing full instructions in the different branches of forwarding, gilding, and finishing. Also, the art of marbling book-edges and paper. The whole designed for the practical workman, the amateur, and the book-collector

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1871. Stereotyped edition (first published in 1856), 8vo, pp. 318, 23 (ads); frontispiece, 7 samples of marbled paper inserted, as issued, 11 plates of binding designs and a few wood-engravings in the text; original black cloth, gilt title direct on spine, bookseller's ticket on front pastedown; upper joint split, text block shaken, several gatherings extended, spine ends a bit chipped; good. James Bartram Nicholson (1820-1901) spent most of his life in Philadelphia in partnership with the English binder, James Pawson. His is "the first practical manual [on the subject of bookbinding] by an American. Although it was founded (truncated) upon John Hannett's Bibliopegia (1835), it went farther than that popular work and came to be regarded as the most nearly complete treatise yet published in America" (DNB). (Inventory #: 51184)