History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique Tapa dura - 1996

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; the British Library. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1996. Fourth Revised Edition. Hardcover. 1884718280 . Ix, 372, [xiv] pp. Index. Illustrated with text cuts throughout and 14 b/w plates at rear. Frontis plate of Middleton at work binding. Glossy brown dust jacket with images of 18th century leatherbound books. DJ has a few small rubs at extremities, a bit of minor crumpling at spine top, book itself is clean and tight, very nice copy. 4th revised edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 372 pages .

New Castle, DE/London: Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, 2000. cloth, hard cover in dust jacket., no flaws, clean, no markings, strong binding,; 372pp., followed by 14 b/w plates., ixpp. preliminaries., 107 figures. most recent edition of classic text on english bookbinding.. Fourth Revised Edition, Later Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 2008. hardcover, dust jacket. Bookbinding. 5.75 x 9 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 386 pages followed by 14 plates. Foreword by Howard M. Nixon. Fourth edition. This is a classic reference work about decorative and commercial English bookbinding techniques written by one of the foremost experts on bookbinding. Each chapter covers various aspects of bookbinding techniques as well as historical information. Each of the chapters describes the material of leaves and folding, beating and pressing, sewing endpapers, gluing the spine, rounding and backing, boards and their attachment, edge-trimming and decoration, headbands, back linings, covering, finishing siding and pasting down, equipment, book repairs and restoration. The book also includes appendices covering a variety of topics. Several sections describe the background and history of the London bookbinding trade around the beginning of the 19th century, its working conditions, and the… Leer más

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 1996. Fourth Revised Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. This expanded and updated edition has many added illustrations and contains a suppement which traces the evolution of the English bookbinding craft since 1945. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket.

Oak Knoll Press, 1996. Hardcover. New. 4th edition. 400 pages. 9.33x6.32x1.26 inches.

Very Good. Same day dispatch. Lovely copy. Both book and jacket are in very good condition.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.