Bookbinding Then & Now. A Survey of the First Hundred and Seventy-Eight Years of James Burn & Company
by DARLEY (Lionel S.)
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Seller
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Grantham, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber. 1959. First edition, 126pp., coloured frontis., 18 plates, orig. cloth, d.w. Recounts one binding firm's history from 1781 to the end of the Second World War with plates of binding styles, a specimen of gold blocking and illustrations of presses and handbinding tools.
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- Bookseller
- Forest Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40930
- Title
- Bookbinding Then & Now. A Survey of the First Hundred and Seventy-Eight Years of James Burn & Company
- Author
- DARLEY (Lionel S.)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Faber & Faber. 1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- BOOKBINDING;
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Forest Books
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