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English Bookbindings in The British Museum. (Together with) Foreign Bookbindings in the British Museum.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1895 & 1896. 2 volumes, 15 inches tall. Magnificently bound in full crushed morocco and signed 'Tregaskis Caxton Head'. With tall gilt raised bands and neat geometric gilt tooling with fillets and rolls. There are vellum doublures framed within superb gilt tooling. The free endpapers are also vellum. The dentelles, with gilt tooling and calf onlays, are superb. Top edges gilt. Limited to 500 copies. There are 63 tissue guarded chromo-lithographs in each volume by Griggs, chromo-lithographer to Her Majesty Queen Victoria. There is a minor repair to the head of the Foreign volume. The green of the morocco has faded to a rich brown.
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Catalogue de Reliures du XVe au XIXe siecle, en vente a la librairie Gamuchian & Cie
Paris: rue de Richelieu, 1929. Half morocco, 13 inches tall. A splendid binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt raised bands, gilt tooling to the panels and gilt top edge. One of only 100 signed copies on 'papier d'Hollande'. 398 items described. With 235 plates of bindings, some in colour. An excellent copy in a handsome binding.
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French Bookbinders of the Eighteenth Century.
Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1904. Half morocco, 12 inches tall. A very handsome binding with gilt, slightly rubbed, raised bands, extra gilt panels and gilt top edge. With 6 illustrations from wash drawings by Paul Avril, 14 facsimile binders labels and 20 plates of bookbindings. First edition, limited to 252 copies on handmade paper. Armorial bookplate. An excellent copy of a rare volume.
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English Bookbindings.
London: Seeley, 1896. Buckram and calf, 10 1/2 inches tall. A splendid binding by Fazakerley in a heavy olive buckram and calf title strip to the spine. The original wraps, from 'The Portfolio' bound in. With 18 full page plates including 9 chromolithographs. With the bookplate of the celebrated collector, Robert J. Hayhurst.
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Royal English Bookbindings.
London: Seeley, 1896. Buckram and calf, 10 1/2 inches tall. A splendid binding by Fazakerley in a heavy olive buckram and calf title strip to the spine. The original wraps, from 'The Portfolio' bound in. With 36 full page plates including 9 chromolithographs. With the bookplate of the celebrated collector, Robert J. Hayhurst.
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Bookbinding in France.
London: Seeley, 1894. Buckram and calf, 10 1/2 inches tall. A splendid binding by Fazakerley in a heavy olive buckram and calf title strip to the spine. The original wraps, from 'The Portfolio' bound in. With 39 illustrations including 8 full page chromolithographs. With the bookplate of the celebrated collector, Robert J. Hayhurst.
More details Price: £150.00