Gothic & Renaissance Bookbindings Exemplified and Illustrated from the Author's Collection
by GOLDSCHMIDT (E.P.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Grantham, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Ernest Benn, Ltd. 1928. First edition, 2 vols., 4to, [x], 369, [1]; 8pp., followed by 110 plates, coloured frontis., orig. publishers buckram, vol. 2 a little shaken and skew-whiff. Volume I, contains an introduction, a catalogue raisonné, a synopsis of the collection, an index of binders' and booksellers' names, monastic binders and cyphers. This remains one of the most scholarly works on the subject.
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- Bookseller
- Forest Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39954
- Title
- Gothic & Renaissance Bookbindings Exemplified and Illustrated from the Author's Collection
- Author
- GOLDSCHMIDT (E.P.)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Ernest Benn, Ltd. 1928
- Bookseller catalogs
- BOOKBINDING;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...