Maioli, Canevari and Others by Hobson, G.D - 1926

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company No. 1 in a series Monographs on Bookbinding; Author was a Director of Sotheby & Co.; Blue cloth, gold spine title, top edge gold, & 64 black & white plates; A good ex-college library copy with usual markings, wear top of spine, & glue burns to feps; 178 pages of text + Plates. . 8.5"x11".

London: Ernest Benn, 1926. [6], vii-xvi, 178pp, plates. Original cloth, title, author and publisher in gilt to spine. Small tear to head, corners bumped, cloth worn through in a couple of places to bottom edges. Internally the page corners are lightly bumped, text slightly browned, but generally clean. With sixty-four plates (six in colour and tissue guarded, and fifty-eight monochrome). Breslauer, 'The Uses of Bookbinding Literature', page 28; Hobson, 'The Literature of Bookbinding', page 6; Middleton, 'The Binders Art' 37, "an important work"; Appleton, page 81; Brenni 568 and 1036; Mejer-Herbst 378; Schmidt-Kunsemuller 4068. First Edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 4to.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1926. Aged, else textblock is clean and tight. Top edge gilt. Sunned spine, light edge wear. 178pp., including appendix and general index. Plates at end.. Blue Cloth. Very Good+. Illus. by Plates. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1926. cloth, top edge gilt. Bookbinding. 4to. cloth, top edge gilt. xvi, 178 pages of text with 64 full-page plates. First U.S. edition. (Appleton p. 81). With six of the plates in color. A historical account of plaquette bindings, architectural bindings, and studies of the binders Maiolus, Failareto, Canevari, and Farnese. Spine faded. Bookplate of John Arnold Holland on front pastedown with Holland's signature in ink below bookplate. Endpapers toned with small remnant of decription mounted on front endpaper.

London, Eng: Ernest Benn, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi, 178 p.: in-text drawings, 64 leaves of plates, of which 6 are color plates; 28 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. No dust jacket. Former owner's name at head of p. 1: Parker Morell. Monographs on bookbinding, no. 1. Contents: I. On a group of bindings decorated with plaquettes. II. Sixteenth-century bindings with architectural decoration. III. Thomae Maioli et amicorum. IV. Apollonio Filareto and his bindings. V. The great Canevari myth. Appendix. A note on the date and origin of Grolier's bindings. In Very Good Condition: cover slightly soiled; spine sunned; ends of spine frayed with slight loss of cloth; corners bumped; text is lightly foxed; plates are clean and bright.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1926 Cloth. Quarto. With 64 plates, six colored. Some browning to endpapers. Very good+ in like jacket. An account of plaquette bindings, architectural bindings, and studies of the binders Maiolus, Failareto, Canevari, and Farnese.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Used - Very Good. 1926. y First edition Cloth, quarto, 178 pp. 64 plates. T.e.g. Cloth slightly sunned; foxing to endpapers; some shelf-wear to cltoh. Overall, a very sound copy.. (Subject: Books on Books.)

HOBSON, G.D. Maioli, Canevari and Others. Orig.cloth, dust jacket. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1926. A fine copy. Illustrated with 64pp of plates of bindings.

HOBSON, G.D. MAIOLI, CANEVARI AND OTHERS. London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1926. 4to. Cloth. xvi, 178 pages, 64 plates. Fi edition. With six color plates, this is a well-illustrated history of bookbindings, chiefly from the sixteenth century. The book is part of the "Monographs on Bookbinding" series. Spine sunned and chipped, else very good.

Book. Good. Binding see description. Boston, 1926. 4to. Orcloth. xvi,178pp. w. 6 colourplates and 58 in black. Flyleaves and some margins foxed, o.w. fine copy.*An important work which contains much new information on Renaissance bindings. 0.