Maioli, Canevari and Others

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).… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.

Ernest Benn , 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Ex-lib copy with withdrawn stamps. Publisher's blue cloth binding. Usual library markings to foot of spine, endpapers, title page, reverse of plates, etc. Good and basically sound copy but spine cloth fraying and detaching. Corners bumped. Contents very clean. Xvi + 178 pages,… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.

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 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… Read more about this item

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.)

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.

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.