An Historical Sketch of Bookbinding
by Prideaux, S.T
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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About This Item
vi, [2], 303 pages.
Cloth heavily soiled and marked, spine darkened with slight loss of cloth to the spine top. Corners and lower edge of rear board bumped. Small ex-libris sticker - Cheltenham Ladies College - to front paste-down. Bookseller's pencil marks to half-title and blank verso of page 303. Front end-paper torn at the joint with some loss (see photo). Internally clean and unmarked.
With a frontispiece of a Binding of St. Cuthbert's Gospel.
A wide-ranging general history of bookbinding with annexes on Technical Terms in Ordinary Use, Embroidered Book-covers, The Use of Metal in Bound Books and, Book Edge Decoration. Also contains details (extracts) of some early documents relating to the craft of bookbinding, and an extensive bibliography of books and papers relating to bookbinding.
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Details
- Bookseller
- John Atkins (ES)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0223
- Title
- An Historical Sketch of Bookbinding
- Author
- Prideaux, S.T
- Format/Binding
- Gray cloth covered boards with gilt title, patterned end-papers - with faults (see description)..
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lawrence & Bullen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1893
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Book binding;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....