Book production - Bookbinding - History

Lot Comprises:

Strickland Gibson, Localization of Books by their Bindings, A Paper (off‐print from Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, vol. 8, 1904‐1906, pp.25‐38), 8vo., patterned wrappers with label, inscription "for Larry, Tommy 1974"

Meiric K. Dutton, Historical Sketch of Bookbinding as an Art, Norwood, Holliston Mills Inc., 1926, 8vo., publisher's red cloth, head‐edge gilt

Mirjam Foot, Bookbinders at Work: Their Roles and Methods, New Castle, DE & London, Oak Knoll Press / British Library, 2006, 4to., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket

Mirjam Foot, Pictorial Bookbindings, London, British Library, 1986, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers

Mirjam Foot, Studies in the History of Bookbinding, Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1993, 4to., publisher's blue cloth gilt

[Western European Book‐Bindings, 14th‐20th Centuries - 12 colored postcards of bindings in The Hermitage, Leningrad, 1977], 8vo., cards within a decorated portfolio

Nicolas Barker, A register of writs and the Scales Binder (off‐print from The Book Collector, 1972), bookplate of Phiroze Randeria (1925-2001)

Edith Diehl, Bookbinding: its background and technique, (New York 1946), reprint New York, Dover Publications, 1980, 2 vols. in 1, 8vo., paperback

P. J. M. Marks, The British Library guide to bookbinding: history and techniques (The British Library guides), London, British Library, 1998, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers

George Walter Michelmore, The doublure from its inception in the sixteenth century to its perfection in the eighteenth, London, Printed at the Chiswick Press, [1920], small 4to., contemporary quarter orange calf with green cloth, joints weak

Michèle Valerie Cloonan,

Early bindings in paper: a brief history of European hand-made paper-covered books with a multilingual glossary, London, Mansell, 1991, 8vo., publisher's printed boards

Bookbinding 2000: Proceedings: a collection of papers from the June 2000 conference celebrating the installation and opening of the Bernard C. Middleton collection of books on the history and practice of bookbinding, Rochester, Cary Graphic Arts Collection, 2002, 4to., wrappers

P. J. M. Marks, Beautiful Bookbindings: A Thousand Years of the Bookbinder's Art, New Castle & London, Oak Knoll & British Library, 2011, small fol., publisher's navy‐blue cloth, dust jacket

Julia Miller, ed., Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding, Volume I, Ann Arbor, Legacy Press, 2013, 8vo., publisher's brown cloth, dust jacket

Howard M. Nixon, The Development of Certain Styles of Bookbinding (The Annual Lecture of the Private Libraries Association in 1962), London, Private Libraries Association, 1963, 4to., pamphlet, publisher's printed wrappers

I. G. Philip, Gold‐tooled bookbindings (Bodleian Picture Books, 2), Oxford, University Press, 1951, small 4to., pamphlet, publisher's printed wrapper

Georges de Récy, The decoration of leather from the French of Georges de Récy by Maude Nathan; with illustrations and examples of leather decoration from various sources. London, Archibald Constable & Co., 1905, small 4to., publisher's brown cloth gilt and blind stamped, inscription dated 1916 "Marjory Grahame Hudson"

Sold as a group, not subject to return.