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Nixon (Howard M.)

Broxbourne Library. Styles and Designs of Bookbindings from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century. With an Introduction by Albert Ehrman.

London: Printed for the Broxbourne Library, 1956.,

931,26 €

Forest Books William Laywood

(Grantham, Reino Unido)

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Autor
Nixon (Howard M.)
Editores
London: Printed for the Broxbourne Library, 1956.
Materia
BOOKBINDING

Descripción

Large 4to (340 x 275 mm), ix, [1], 251, [1]pp., limited to 300 copies, coloured frontis., 118 illustrations of bindings (4 in colour), signs of a label having been removed from verso of title page, orig. quarter vellum, a little worn, lacks spine label. One of the best and most important surveys of bookbinding written by one its greatest historians. Each of the 119 bindings, most illustrated in full page reproductions, are described in such detail by Nixon that the annotations constitute a history of bookbinding. ìEssential reading for any student of bindings.îóBreslauer. Breslauer, The Uses of Bookbinding Literature. p. 30.
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