Some Notes on Bookbinding
Author(s):
Cockerell, Douglas
| Binding: | Hardcover |
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| Size: | 5 - 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall |
| Volume Condition: | Very Good |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
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| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford |
| Publication Year: | 1929 |
| Publication Place: | London |
| SKU: | 005031 |
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| Categories: | Arts and Crafts , Books on Books, Book Collecting, Print and Design History |
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iv, 106pp, including charts, diagrams etc. Plate frontispiece showing a typical English binding with the Cypher of James II. Quarter bound in tan cloth covered marbled boards (gently rubbed at corners and spine ends). Some spotting on endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Douglas Cockerell was a leading bookbinding in the early part of the twentieth century. He compiled this book from his teaching notes and lectures; his essay 'Notes on Bookbinding' is included, although his free-form illustrations used in lectures are here replaced by fine drawings by Doris Meyer. 12mo. Handsome, tactile volume of gifting quality.
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