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United Kingdom: Oak Knoll Press & the British Library. Near Fine/Mylar Jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 1584560355 Used For the Love of the Binding: Studies in Bookbinding History Presented to Mirjam Foot; in half blue cloth over sky blue boards, Red title label to spine and cover, gilt titling, 4to, 377pp + illustrations. . (more information)

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Newcastle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2001 378 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is Free of Markings. Cloth. Fine/Glasine Cover . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. (more information)

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Oak Knoll/British Library. Used - Like New. 2000. Hardcover. Fine. Boards. 4to. 378 pp. Numerous b&w illustrations and 72 color plates. (more information)

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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 378 pp. Includes bibliography and index. Illustrated in black & white with forty-two color plates. Blue cloth over turquoise boards with red title label lettered in gilt. Fine in clear acetate dust jacket (more information)

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Oak Knoll Press. Hardcover. 1584560355 New with very slight shelf wear from time on shelf (like you'd see at a major chain). We ship daily, provide personalized customer service and want you to have a great experience purchasing from us. Thank you for your consideration. . New. (more information)

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New Castle, DE / London: Oak Knoll Press / The British Library, 2000. xiv, 378 pp. 220 black-and-white illustrations, color plates, bibliographical notes, index. In publisher's original, clear plastic protective jacket. Twenty-six of the world's most prestigious bookbinding experts have contributed essays reflecting Mirjam Foot's own research interests, particularly the placement of bindings in their historical context. CONTENTS: Mirjam Foot [Robin Myers]. A Romanesque blind-stamped binding at the Queen's College, Oxford [Michael Gullick]. Medieval manuscript leaves as publishers' wrappers in the 1920s [Christopher de Hamel]. Fragments found in bindings and their role as bibliographical evidence [Lotte Hellinga]. Crutched Friars, lambs, roses, and crosses: Brussels incunables on the shelves of the Crutched Friars at the turn of the sixteenth century [Elly Cockx-Indestege]. The advent of gold tooling in English bookbinding and the intermediary role of Thomas Linacre [Giles Barber]. Plaquette and medallion bindings: a second supplement [Anthony Hobson]. Commissioni Dogali: Venetian bookbindings in the British Library [Laura Nuvoloni]. Some unrecorded sixteenth-century French bookbindings [Nicolas Barker]. Tacketed bindings--a hundred years of European bookbinding [Nicholas Pickwoad]. Bookbinding in Cambridge in the second half of the sixteenth century [David Pearson]. Seventeenth-century Cambridge pyxides [Elisabeth Leedham-Green]. A Bible bound in 1661 by Patrick Erskine for the Earl and Countess of Caithness [John Morris]. Putting book structures within an historical context: a note on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century paper bindings in the Wolf Collection, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Hamburg [Vanessa C. Marshall]. It glitters and is more than gold: fore-edge paintings in the Dutch Royal Library [Jan Storm van Leeuwen]. The autograph album of a journeyman bookbinder: Alexander Troschel of Nuremberg (1758-69) [David Paisey]. Scott bindings on the 1770 Foulis Milton [Richard Ovenden]. John Whittaker's edition of the Magna Carta, its printing, and his bindings on the Wormsley copies [Bryan Maggs]. Four bindings and a will: Thomas Jones Ellison and some notes on nineteenth-century signed rolls [John Collins]. John Hannett's "Bibliopegia and Inquiry," and Salt Brassington's revision [Paul Morgan]. The bookbindings of Benjamin West (1804-83) [Esther Potter]. A mid-nineteenth-century book-trade binder: Florent Pollender and the firm of Hanicq-Dessain in Mechelen [Christian Coppens]. The book cover designs of William Harry Rogers [Edmund M. B. King]. The mysterious Mr de Sauty [Marianne Tidcombe]. Secret, loud and clear [Anna Simoni]. The Keatley Trust Collection of modern British bindings [Dorothy A. Harrop]. A Jean de Gonet binding at the British Library [P. J. M. Marks]. Bibliography of the writings of Mirjam Foot. OVERSIZED.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine (Like New)/No Jacket (as issued). 29 x 23 cm. (more information)

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London: The British Library- Oak Knoll Press XIV-378 [+ [16 pp] coloured plates section] With extensive index and a bibliography. Richly illustrated with monochrome plates and 42 coloured plates.A truly marvelous bookproduction by these two well chosen publishers. A comprehensive, well written history of [highlights of]bookbinding.. First Edition. 1/2 Cloth [Hardback]. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. (more information)

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Oak Knoll Press, 2000. hardcover. First edition. Twenty-six of the world's most prestigious bookbinding experts have contributed essays reflecting Mirjam Foot's own research interests, particularly the placement of bindings in their historical context. A sample list of subjects and authors in the book are: "The Mysterious Mr. de Sauty" by Marianne Tidcombe; "Some unrecorded sixteenth-century French bookbindings" by Nicolas Barker; "Ticketed Bindings - a hundred years of European bookbinding" by Nicholas Pickwoad; "The Keatley Trust Collection of modern British Bindings" by Dorothy A. Harrop; "John Wittaker's edition of the Magna Carta, its printing, and his bindings on the Wormsley copies" by Bryan Maggs. Other authors include Anthony Hobson, Lotte Hellinga, David Pearson, Robin Myers, and more. SALES RIGHTS: Available in North & South America from Oak Knoll Books. Available outside North & South America from The British Library. (more information)

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Delaware: Oak Knoll Pess & The British Library, 2000 [378pps] Cloth spine in clear acetate dustwrapper. 44 colour and 220 b/w illustrations. Twenty-six of the world's most prestigious bookbinding experts have contributed essays in honour of Mirjam Foot, Director of Conservation and Preservation at The British Library, who retired in 1999. Some of the authors include: Marianne Tidcombe; "The Mysterious Mr. de Sauty", Nicolas Baker; "Some unrecorded sixteenth-century French bookbindings, Bryan Maggs; "John Wittaker's edition of the Magna Carta, its printing, and his bindings on the Wormsley copies". Other contributors include, Anthony Hobson, Lotte Hellinga, David Pearson, Robin Myers and many more.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. (more information)

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London: The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 2000. 392 pp. 220 illus. in b/w.. Cloth. 4to. (more information)

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