London: Scolar Press, 1979. 100 b&w plates with informative text, bibliography and index. Book is in very good condition. Dust jacket is price clipped and worn at top and bottom of spine.. ISBN: 0859674118. First Edition, Second Printing. Hard Cover. Octavo. Bookbinding, Book History,. (more information)

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Scolar Press, London, 1979 reprint of 1978 first edition. Cloth, large 8vo, 26 cm,. Very Good, save that title-page has a red stamp "File Copy", in aVery Good dustwrapper. 241 pp, 100 full-page plates. For the last twenty-five years the 'Englixh Bookbindings' series which Howard Nixon has been contributing to The Book Collector has been one of the most highly-regarded features of that journal. With the issue of Spring 1977 the series reached its hundredth article, and the hundred pieces have been collected in this book, which provides the most authoritative concise guide to the history of bookbinding in this country which has been published. The one hundred bindings are illustrated and discussed in chronological progression from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, and the text has been revised and expanded where necessary to take into account the most recent scholarship on the subject. The articles are supplemented by a short introduction and a bibliography.The three principles which Mr Nixon followed for the Book Collector series - to include only bindings which had not previously been published in book form, to cover in depth all periods of English bookbinding and 'to endeavour to publish at least one new fact with every binding' - combine in this collection to make a contribution to the study of bookbinding worthy to be set alongside the most important work of G. D. Hobson, E. P. Goldschmidt and B. Oldham." - from the blurb. (more information)

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