The Repair of Cloth Bindings : A Manual
by Johnson, Arthur W
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 020530902X
- ISBN 13
- 9780205309023
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
New Castle, Delaware / London: Oak Knoll Press / The British Library. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. (2005). Hardcover. 020530902X . No signatures. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 2005 reprint of a title first published in 2002. vii, [1], 115, [5 (blank)] pages. Page dimensions: 227 x 149mm. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. "One of the leading designer bookbinders in Great Britain, Arthur Johnson has used his extensive knowledge of book construction to provide a reference manual for the repair and reconstruction of cloth bindings. Each process is explained in precise detail with clear text in order to give the worker confidence in this exacting skill. Using more than 90 illustrations, drawn by the author himself, Johnson explains his procedures for sound repair that he has developed over many decades. " .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24974
- Title
- The Repair of Cloth Bindings : A Manual
- Author
- Johnson, Arthur W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 020530902X
- ISBN 13
- 9780205309023
- Publisher
- Oak Knoll Press / The British Library
- Place of Publication
- New Castle, Delaware / London
- Date Published
- (2005)
- Keywords
- 020530902X
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...