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The Doves Bindery
by Tidcombe, Marianne
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0712302387
- ISBN 13
- 9780712302388
- Seller
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Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London and New Castle: The British Library and Oak Knoll Books, 1991. xiv, 490pp. Original cloth, title in gilt to spine, lacks the glassine DJ. Bright and clean. Includes a colour frontispiece and sixteen colour photographic plates, and one hundred and twenty-seven monochrome photographic plates. With two page addenda and corrigenda for this work and her earlier work on Cobden-Sanderson. Tidcombe has "succeeded in unravelling the achievements of a career which has been obscured by Cobden-Sanderson’s unreliable memory, his vile handwriting, and his faulty methods of recording" (John Dreyfus in 'The Book Collector', Summer 1992). First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to.
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- Bookseller
- Zetetic Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004254
- Title
- The Doves Bindery
- Author
- Tidcombe, Marianne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0712302387
- ISBN 13
- 9780712302388
- Publisher
- The British Library and Oak Knoll Books
- Place of Publication
- London and New Castle
- Date Published
- 1991
- Size
- 4to
- Keywords
- Bookbinding, Cobden-Sanderson, Doves Press, Private Press, Binding
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliography and Reference;
Terms of Sale
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
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Zetetic Books
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Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
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- New
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- Gilt
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