History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique
by Middleton, Bernard C
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Kraków, Poland
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About This Item
New York & London: Hafner Publishing Company, 1963 8vo (23.5 cm), front. with patterns of marbled paper in color, XVI, 307 pp, 11 plates. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine (binding slightly rubbed). Loosely inserted signed by Middleton Christmas card with a printed poem "Solemn Curse pronounced by Ben Burnisher upon a Master Bookbinder upon a particular occasion". Foreword by Howard M. Nixon. The first edition of a comprehensive guide to English bookbinding concerned with materials and techniques.
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008920
- Title
- History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique
- Author
- Middleton, Bernard C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hafner Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York & London
- Date Published
- 1963
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliography; Bookbinding;
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About the Seller
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Biblio member since 2019
Kraków
About Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Specializing in mathematical sciences, Church Slavonic and Slavic books, Eastern European history, travels and topography, bibliography, history and art of the book, history of libraries and collections
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