17625
BALAMUNDI. SAMPLE BOOK OF BALACRON 243 BOOK CLOTH. Huizen: Balamundi, [1970s] Oblong sm.folio, (150x210mm), 21 sample leaves
secured into the covers with a binding bolt, slightly soiled. Samples of a Dutch manufactured, non-woven vinyl book covering
material, showing several 'grains'. With the label of the English agents: BBN products of Borough Road, London, laid
down inside the front cover. £10.00
17626 BALAMUNDI. SAMPLE BOOK OF TEXICRON BOOK CLOTH. Huizen: Balamundi, [1970s] Oblong sm.folio (152x214mm),
67 sample leaves cut diagonally across the head-fore edge to display the range of colours, secured into the covers with a
binding bolt, slightly soiled. Samples of a Dutch non-woven book covering material, manufactured for Balamundi by Cartiera
del Varone Spa. £10.00
21057
BARBER, Giles; David ROGERS & Paul MORGAN. FINE BINDINGS 1500-1700 FROM OXFORD LIBRARIES. Catalogue of an exhibition.
Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1968. 8vo, (212x148mm), x,144p. colour frontispiece & 52 monochrome plates. Original blue cloth,
gilt lettered, covers slightly soiled. £30.00
16370 BARBER, Giles. TEXTILE AND EMBROIDERED BINDINGS. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1971.
8vo, (234x155mm), 11p. + 30 plates. A good copy in original stiff wrappers. £10.00
18210 BARROW, W.J. DETERIORATION OF BOOK STOCK. Causes and
remedies. Two studies on the permanence of book paper. Edited by Randolph W. Church. Richmond, VA, Virginia State Library,
1959. 8vo, (234x157mm), 72p. Apart from a rubber-stamp and several ms class-mark on the half title, a clean ex-library copy
in original wrappers. £10.00
19134 BARROW, W.J. THE MANUFACTURE AND TESTING OF DURABLE BOOK PAPERS. Edited by Randolph W. Church. Richmond,
VA: Virginia State Library, 1960. 8vo, (234x152mm), 64p. An ex-library copy in original, slightly soiled, wrappers. £8.00
17786 BAYNTUN, George (Booksellers) CATALOGUE
9. Bath: George Bayntun, 2000. Sm.4to, (244x188mm), [84]p. 60 items, 7 colour & 34 monochrome illustrations, mainly of
historic fine bindings, several with attributions. A very good copy in original stiff wrappers. £8.00
21079 BEEBY, K.J. THE WONDERFUL STORY
OF LEATHER. [London]: The Leather Institute, [195?] 8vo, (220x142mm), 16p.29 decorative illustrations. A fine copy in original
printed wrappers. COPAC locates three copies of this pamphlet of which two note the printers. In this copy we offer the printer
is Keliher, Hudson & Kearns who are not among those noted on Copac and who were taken over by Hazell, Watson & Viney
in 1959. £10.00
11968
BERNARD, Georges. TENDANCES ACTUELLES DE LA RELIURE D'ART DANS LE BENELUX. Catalogue descriptif. Introductions par Elly
Cockx-Indestege, Jan Storm van Leeuwne, Émile van der Vekene. Bruxelles: Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 1988. 4to, (297x210mm),
144p. 12 colour and 51 monochrome illustrations. A fine copy in original stiff wrappers. Modern designer bindings from Belgian,
Dutch and Luxemburg bookbinders, with introductions and descriptions in French and Dutch. £15.00
18756 THE BOOKBINDER. THE BOOKBINDER NUMBER 6: An illustrated
journal for book-binders, librarian and all lovers of books. London: William Clowes, December, 1887. 4to, (250x190mm), ii,81-96p.
3 mounted plates (of 4) of designs for cloth bookbidnings. Original wrappers slightly soiled. £10.00
19372 BOYCE, Barrington. PROGRESSIVE BOOKCRAFT.
London: Oxford University Press, 1933. Sm.4to, (215x170mm), 51,[1]p. frontispiece (of paste-paper patterns) printed in blue,
numerous line illustrations throughout the text. Original decorated paper-covered boards, backstrip slightly faded and rubbed.
Basic bookbinding techniques in a series of exercises that had been practised in a small elementary school. £15.00
16481 BUNDOCK, Clement J. THE STORY OF
THE NATIONAL UNION OF PRINTING, BOOKBINDING AND PAPER WORKERS. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959. Roy.8vo, (254x160mm),
xii,590p. 7 plates. Original cloth, dustjacket frayed. A history of the various printing and associated trades unions from
the imprisonment for conspiracy of a group of bookbinders in 1787 until the final amalgamation of the several unions in the
1950s which provides, in the process, an important study of a sometimes neglected area of print history. £8.00
21081 BURDETT, Eric. THE CRAFT OF BOOKBINDING.
A practical handbook. Third impression, Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1983. 8vo, (235x155mm), 400p. 8 colour plates and
185 monochrome text illustrations. A good copy in original quarter canvas, cloth sides, dustjacket. An excellent manual by
a binder who lectured at Southampton and Bournemouth Colleges of Art and who was, for twenty years, the chief examiner in
advanced bookbinding for the City and Guilds Institute. £30.00
10730 CHIVERS, Cedric. THE PAPER OF LENDING LIBRARY BOOKS, with some remarks on their
bindings. A summary of two lectures delivered before the American Library Association… and British Library Association
Bath: Cedric Chivers, [1910]. 4to, (298x220mm), 34p. 23 illustrations, several from microphotographs. An stamped ex-library
copy in original cloth, discoloured. £36.00
17475 CLOUGH, Eric A. BOOKBINDING FOR LIBRARIANS. London: Association of Assistant Librarians,
1957. 8vo, (220x140mm., 204p. 14 plates & 14 line illustrations. An internally clean ex-library copy in original two-tone
cloth, slightly rubbed. As well as providing a manual of techniques and a survey of suitable materials, the author discusses
the various needs of the library for binding and preserving newspapers, periodicals, music, pamphlets, &c. together with
administration and expenditure. £25.00
19379 COCKERELL, Douglas. BOOKBINDING, AND THE CARE OF BOOKS. A text-book for bookbinders and librarians.
Fourth edition reprinted, London: Isaac Pitman, 1939. 8vo, (190x125mm), 342p +8p trade and publisher's adverts,
8 plates and 120 text illustrations. Original quarter linen, green paper covered sides faded at the edges, bookplate. £30.00
17621 COCKERELL, Douglas. BOOKBINDING
AS A SCHOOL SUBJECT. Stage 4: Lettering and simple tooling. Second edition, Hitchin: G.W. Russell, 1945. Cr.8vo, (179x121mm),
16p. 9 illustrations. Original wrappers, edges slightly faded. £12.00
18114 COCKERELL, Douglas. BOOKBINDING, AND THE CARE OF BOOKS. A text-book
for bookbinders and librarians. Fourth edition reprinted, London: Isaac Pitman, 1948. 8vo, (190x125mm), 333p +4p trade
and publisher's adverts, 8 plates and 120 text illustrations. Original quarter linen, prize label laid down on the front
free endleaf. £30.00
21082
COCKERELL, Douglas. BOOKBINDING, AND THE CARE OF BOOKS. A text-book for bookbinders and librarians. Fifth edition reprinted,
London: Isaac Pitman, 1971. 8vo, (190x125mm), 345p. 12 plates and 120 text illustrations. Original green hardback boards,
silver-gilt lettered, dustjacket torn. £25.00
17619 COCKERELL, Douglas. BOOKBINDING AS A SCHOOL SUBJECT. Stage 1: Binding books of one section.
Second edition, Hitchin: Russell Bookcrafts, [1940?] Cr.8vo, (184x124mm), 16p. 8 line illustrations in the text. Original
wrappers, edges slightly discoloured. £12.00
17570 COCKERELL, Douglas. BOOKBINDING AS A SCHOOL SUBJECT. Stage 1: Binding books of one section.
Fourth edition, Hitchin: Russell Bookcrafts, [1960?] Cr.8vo, (184x124mm), 16p. 8 line illustrations in the text. A very good
copy in original wrappers. £10.00
17579 COCKERELL, Sydney M. MARBLING PAPER. Bookbinding as a school subject Stage 5. Fourth edition, Cambridge:
Cockerell Bindery, [1960?] Cr.8vo, (185x123mm), 16p. 1 tipped in original samples of Cockerell marbled paper & 4 illustrations
by Joan Rix Tebbutt. A good copy in original wrappers. Possibly a variant issue as other volumes in this series carry the
imprint of Russell Bookcrafts of Hitchin. £15.00
20096 COHEN, Colin (Editor). PAPER & PRINTING: THE NEW TECHNOLOGY OF THE 1830s taken from
the monthly supplement of The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. August to December 1833.
Oxford: Plough Press, 1982. 250 copies, 4to, (305x196mm), 40p. 21 illustrations. A fine copy in original quarter cloth, marbled
paper sides, Facsimile reproductions of the four supplements to Charles Knight's The Penny Magazine, originally entitled
'The commercial history of a penny magazine', that were devoted to the areas of production of a part work. These include
essays on papermaking, typefounding and setting, printing and binding as well as aspects more concerned with publishing. £25.00
21085 COLLINS, A.F. BOOK CRAFTS FOR JUNIORS.
Ninth edition, Leicester: Dryad Press, 1967. 8vo (223x145mm), viii,190p. +2p publisher's adverts. 14 monochrome plates
& numerous line illustrations in the text. Original green cloth, very slightly soiled, lettered in white, dustjacket.
£15.00
17630 COMMERCIAL
PLASTICS. SAMPLE BOOK OF THE XK STATIONERY RANGE OF BOOK CLOTHS. London: Commercial Plastics, [1970/1] Oblong cr.8vo, (110x150mm),
50 sample leaves each preceded by a leaf carrying the name, colour, gauge, size and width. Secured in the cover by binding
bolts. 'A range of plain colours specially formulated for the stationery and fancy goods trade where a degree of stiffness
is required... and a selection of Superlon printed effects...' £10.00
17465 COMPARATO, Frank E. BOOKS FOR THE MILLIONS. A history of the
men whose methods and machines that packaged the printed word. Harrisburg: Stackpole, 1971. 8vo, (238x158mm), x,374p. illustrations.
A very good copy in original cloth, dustjacket. An account of the persons, and their machines, that developed mass-produced
bookbinding in England, France, Germany, and the USA. £40.00
17466 DARLEY, Lionel. BOOKBINDING THEN AND NOW. A survey of the first hundred and seventy-eight
years of James Burn and Company. London: Faber, 1959. 8vo, (220x160mm), 126p. 3 colour plates (including an example of gold-blocking),
16 monochrome plates and 16 text illustrations, Original cloth, edges slightly discoloured. Author's presentation inscription
on the front free endleaf. A history of the important trade binding house founded by Thomas Burn in the 18th century. The
text interweaves the history of the house with the development of trade binding and surveys the changing fashions in binding
over the period. £40.00
19647
DARLEY, Lionel S. INTRODUCTION TO BOOKBINDING. London: Faber, 1965. 8vo, (210x135mm), 118p. 8 plates on 4 & 43 text illustrations.
Free endleaves lightly browned otherwise a good copy in original cloth. £20.00
21086 DARLEY, Lionel S. INTRODUCTION TO BOOKBINDING. London:
Faber, 1976. 8vo, (195x125mm), 120p. 8 plates on 4 & 43 text illustrations. An ex-library copy marred only by a rubber-stamp
on the front pastedown endleaf in original stiff paperback. £5.00
21023 DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS. THE NEW BOOKBINDER Volume 5. Journal of Designer Bookbinders.
Edited by Philip Smith & others. London: Designer Bookbinders, 1985. 4to, (280x214mm), 64p. monochrome illustrations.
A good copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains: Anthony Cains, Book conservation workshop manual part
5: continuation of specification and observation; Jeff Clements, Towards the rectangle: challenge or constraint; Ivor Robinson,
A bookbinding discussed with Faith Shannon; and Modern British bookbinding exhibition.
£30.00
16367 DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS. THE NEW BOOKBINDER
Volume 6. Journal of Designer Bookbinders. Edited by Philip Smith & others. London: Designer Bookbinders, 1986. 4to, (280x214mm),
83p. +4p adverts, monochrome illustrations. A good copy in original colour- illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains: James Brockman,
In Memoriam – Tennyson – single hinge binding; Emma Bulley, Setting up and running a bindery; Betty Lou Chaika,
Visible structure visual books; Mirjam M Foot, Modern British bookbinding; Colin Franklin, Bound to succeed; Dorothy A. Harrop,
The Keatley Trust collection of fine bindings; Jen Lindsay, Rough edge gilding; Robinson, A bookbinding discussed with Jeff
Clements; W P Visscher, Trends in vellum and parchment making past and present. £20.00
11044 DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS. THE NEW BOOKBINDER Volume 7. Journal
of Designer Bookbinders. Edited by Philip Smith & others. London: Designer Bookbinders, 1987. 4to, (280x214mm),
100p. +5p. adverts, monochrome illustrations. A good copy in original colour-illustrtated illustrated stiff wrappers. Contents:
Martha Bergman, An interview with Timothy C Ely artist bookmaker, bookpainter and bookbinders; James Brockman & Jeff Clements,
Bookbindings examined: two Gregynog bindings by George Fisher; Sam Ellenport, Book-edge decoration; Betty M Haines, Bookbinding
leather; Dorothy A Harrop, The Elizabeth Greenhill collection of fine bindings; Ivor Robinson, A bookbinding discussed with
Edgar Mansfield; Jack C Thompson, Conservator's progress; Lotje Ariéns Kappers-van der Peet, Bookbinding societies
No 1: Nederlandse handboekbinders en boekbandontwerpsgroep. £20.00
11045 DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS. THE NEW BOOKBINDER Volume 8. Journal of Designer Bookbinders.
Edited by Philip Smith & others. London: Designer Bookbinders, 1988. 4to, (280x214mm), 88p. +4p. adverts, colour
& monochrome illustrations. A good copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains: Don Cawthorn, The development
of technical courses in bookbinding in Britain up to 1941; Micheline De Bellefroid, Enough of decorated bindings; Pascal Fulacher,
School of La Cambre, Brussels; Ken Gostling, Bookworkers and adhesives part 1; Jirí Hadlac, Artist of the book;
Trevor Jones, Confessions of an unrepentant designer bookbinder; Gotthilf Kurz, Bookbinding societies No 2: Meister der einbandkunst,
Germany; Jen Lindsay, The development of the codex in the western world; Faith Shannon, Leighton House exhibition. £20.00
16368 DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS. THE NEW BOOKBINDER
Volume 9. Journal of Designer Bookbinders. Edited by Philip Smith & others. London: Designer Bookbinders, 1989. 4to, (280x214mm),
84p. +4p adverts, colour & monochrome illustrations. A good copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains:
Don Cawthorn, The bookbinding industry in the United Kingdom 1914-39; Pascal Fulacher, Henri Creuzevault; Ken Gostling, Bookbinders
and adhesives part 2; Dorothy Harrop, The Wardington collection of fine bindings; František Kusý, Philip Smith
and his contribution to bookbinding; Philip Smith, The new Bookbinding: leading edges; and Recent bindings by fellows
and licentiates. £20.00
12204
DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS. THE NEW BOOKBINDER Volume 11. Journal of Designer Bookbinders. Edited by Philip Smith & others.
London: Designer Bookbinders, 1991. 4to, (280x214mm), 101p. +7p adverts, colour & monochrome illustrations. A good copy
in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains: James Brockman, Rebacking – an alternative technique; Jeff
Clements, On inlaying techniques; Timothy C Ely, Bones of the book: an oblong identity part 1; Dorothy Harrop, The Anthony
Dowd collection of fine bindings; Hedi Kyle, Conservator and book art: observations and personal history; Jen Lindsay, A limp
vellum binding sewn on alum-tawed thongs; Keith A Smith, Syntactical pages; Peter Waters &c, A tribute to Roger Powell;
and Recent bindings. £20.00
17912 DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS. THE NEW BOOKBINDER Volume 12. Journal of Designer Bookbinders. Edited by Dorothy
Harrop & others. London: Designer Bookbinders, 1992. 4to, (280x214mm), 101p. +12p. adverts, colour & monochrome illustrations.
A good copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains: Timothy C Ely, Bones of the books: an oblong identity:
Part 2; Paula Hocks, Artists' books: not just a bookish art; Jen Lindsay, Workshop notes; Diana Patterson, The Canadian
Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild; Ivor Robinson, Bookworks at Oxford; Hayo van Gemerden & Corrie van de Vendel, Presenting
Don Quichotte; Jan Storm van Leeuwen, Between East and West: Polish bookbindings in The Hague; The Booker Prize bindings;
and Recent bindings. £20.00
17607 DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS. THE NEW BOOKBINDER Volume 13. Journal of Designer Bookbinders. Edited by Dorothy
Harrop & others. London: Designer Bookbinders, 1993. 4to, (280x214mm), 91p. + 17p adverts, colour & monochrome illustrations.
A good copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains: James Brockman, A vellum over boards binding; Dorothy
Harrop, Angela James and the uses of colour; Judith Hoffberg, Learning to read: the art of artists' books; Paul Johnson,
Children making books; Trevor Jones, Extending the options: the use of spirit leather dyes in bookbinding design; Jen Lindsay,
Workshop notes; Philip Smith, Alternative book-structures; Sally Lou Smith, Onlays: some suggested techniques; The Booker
Prize bindings and Recent bindings by fellows and licentiates. £20.00
17608 DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS. THE NEW BOOKBINDER Volume 15. Journal of
Designer Bookbinders. Edited by Dorothy Harrop & others. London: Designer Bookbinders, 1995. 4to, (280x214mm), 83,16p
+ 11p. adverts, colour & monochrome illustrations. A good copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers Contains:
James Brockman, Re-thinking the rigid spine; Jeff Clements, Design, a changing concept; Angela James, Containing bindings;
Roberta Johnstone, Fine binding in Australia; Trevor Jones, New Directions, or no Direction?; Ivor Robinson, Twenty-one case-bindings
and five experimental books; Recent bindings; and an Index to volumes 1-14. £20.00
17610 DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS. THE NEW BOOKBINDER Volume 17.
Journal of Designer Bookbinders. Edited by Dorothy Harrop & others. London: Designer Bookbinders, 1997. 4to, (280x214mm),
75p. + 15p. adverts, colour & monochrome illustrations. A good copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains:
Jeff Clements, Ella Riemersma: a footnote and with & Katinka Keus, A boards attachment circa 1560; Kim Furrokh,
Photographing bookbinding; Jonathan Gilbert, Fore-edge painting; Peter Jones, Sewing on rods: a non-intrusive binding technique;
Bernard Middleton, Elizabeth Greenhill at ninety; Sydney Shep, Contemporary bookmaking in New Zealand; Philip Smith, Five
flavours of bookbinding; and Recent bindings. £20.00
17913 DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS. THE NEW BOOKBINDER Volume 22. Journal of Designer Bookbinders.
Edited by Nesta Davies & others. London: Designer Bookbinders, 2002. 4to, (280x214mm), 72p. + 12p. adverts, colour &
monochrome illustrations. A good copy in original colour-illustrated illustrated stiff wrappers, a small rubber-stamp on the
title-page.. Contains: Peter Bower, Strong stuff: an historical survey of boards and boardmaking; Sün Evrard, AIR neuf
prend des couleurs; Colin Hamilton, The chosen binding; Trevor Jones, 'Books which we think you might enjoy binding'
twenty-eight years of bookbindings for a Scottish collection; Mia Leijonstedt, Contemporary bookbinding in Finland; David
Sellars, Tight back, cut flush structure; Peter Waters, The preservation of library and archive material in the digital age;
and Recent bindings by fellows and licentiates. £20.00
17914 DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS. THE NEW BOOKBINDER Volume 24. Journal of Designer Bookbinders.
Edited by Nesta Davis and others and Incorporating the catalogue of Designer Bookbinders' exhibition at the Bibliotheca
Wittockiana... London: Designer Bookbinders, 2004. 4to, (280x214mm), 98p +16p. adverts, colour & monochrome illustrations.
A good copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains: Glenn Bartley, Back-pared onlays; Lester Capon, The pattern
poems of George Herbert; Annie De Coster, The Bibliotheca Wittockiana; Philip Smith, Awareness the creator of everything;
Alec Taylor, The Alec Taylor collection of commissioned bindings; The Man Booker bindings, &c. £20.00
21043 DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS THE NEW BOOKBINDER
Volume 30 Journal of Designer Bookbinders: anniversary volume celebrating the art of paper in bookbinding. Edited by Nesta
Davies & others. London: Designer Bookbinders, 2010. 4to, (280x214mm), 86p. + 10p. adverts, colour & monochrome illustrations.
A good copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. (NEW BOOK) Contains: Veronique le Borgne, The art of paper decoration;
Clare Bryan & Tracy Bush, Paper worlds; Nesta Davies, Books, beetles and Mark Cockram; Kerstin Forstmeyer, Paste-paper
on boards: a modest 18th century binding as a challenge for the book conservator; Paul Johnson, Movable books without folds;
Katinka Keus, Flexible friends; Philippa Sterline & Vanessa Charles; The Linnaean correspondence project; The Man
Booker shortlist bindings, and Recent bindings. £20.00
19792 DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS. THE NEW BOOKBINDER Volume 31. Journal of Designer Bookbinders.
Edited by Nesta Davies & others. London: Designer Bookbinders, 2011. 4to, (280x214mm), 96p. + 8p. adverts, colour &
monochrome illustrations. A good copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains: Carmencho Arregui, Old Italian
paper bindings; James Brockman & Angela James, The Cockerell tradition; Stephen Conway, Reasons to be cheerful - the first
twenty-five years; Miransa Hart, Bookbinding - a craft in crisis?; Jenny Hille & Sylvie Merian, The Armenian endband:
history and technique; Katinka Keus, Conservation of vellum bindings with Tyvek; The Man Booker shortlist bindings, and Recent
bindings by fellows and licentiates. £20.00
17528 DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS. NEWSLETTER Numbers 51 - 145. A collection of 95 issues. London: Designer
Bookbinders, June 1985 - Winter 2008. 4to, (297x210mm), approx. 8-16 pages per issue, a half page cut from one issue. Number
51-101 bound in quarter leather with cloth sides, the remaining issues loose. A lengthy run of this Newsletter which recounts
the various meetings, events, conferences, &c, of the Society together with the occasional technical article, obituaries
of significant binders, &c. The bound volume includes a number of T.L.s and other ephemera relating to the Society's
activities. £40.00
21088
DIEHL, Edith. BOOKBINDING. Its background and technique. Reprinted, 2 volumes in 1, New York: Dover, 1980. 8vo (219x135mm),
xxii,251,vi,406p. 92 plates & 187 illustrations. Modern binders' blue cloth, lettered in silver-gilt, covers very
slightly soiled. £10.00
12278
DOYLE, A.I. HUGH HUTCHINSON BOOKBINDER OF DURHAM c.1662 or 1666-95. [An offprint from] The Book Collector, Spring, 1975. 8vo,
(221x140mm), p25-32, 2 plates. Original wrappers. £5.00
17622 FARLEIGH, John. THE CREATIVE CRAFTSMAN. London: G. Bell, 1950. 8vo, (222x143mm),
xii,269p. 42 plates. Original cloth, dustjacket - designed by John Farleigh - slightly frayed. Contains essays by Sydney Cockerell
- bookbinding, Guido Morris - printing, Irene Wellington, and Mervyn C. Oliver - calligraphy; as well as Bernard Leach, and
Dora Billington - pottery, Leslie Durbin, and Francis Cooper - Goldsmithing, Harry Norris - woodwork, Carl Dometsch &
Leslie Ward - musical instruments, and Hebe Cox, and Valerie Bayford - embroidery. £10.00
17632 FIBERMARK SAMPLE BOOK OF KIVAR 9 BOOK CLOTH. South Hadley:
James River Graphics Inc., [1980s] Oblong cr.8vo, (70x157mm), 168 samples. Original 'Kivar' limp covers, several early
samples curled at the fore-edge. Displaying the wide range of colour and finishes including a number with marbled patterns,
manufactured by Fibermark. £10.00
18837 FICHTENBERG, M. NEW AND COMPLETE MANUAL ON THE MAKING OF FANCY PAPERS. A tranlsation into English of
his Nouveau manual complet du fabricant de papiers de fantasie (Paris, 1852) by Richard J. Wolfe. New Castle, Oak Knoll Books,
2010. 300 copies, 8vo, (187x125mm), xviii,x,242p. monochrome frontispiece & 4 colour plates carrying images of 32 decorated
papers. A fine copy in original quarter cloth, sides covered with a facsimile of a French coulé paper of the period.
Preceded by an introductory essay by the translator, this manual describes many steps in the marbling and other decorated
paper processes. It describes the methods of making colors and the preparation of the aluminum serving to give body to the
colors including reds and violets, yellows, blues, and greens. It discusses the preparation of hide glue, paste, glue, glazing,
polishers, workshops, troughs, papers that are quilted, papers exhibiting the grain of wood, granite papers, printing, varnishing,
sealing wax, and a variety of other details. £66.00
11053 FOOT, Mirjam F. THE DECORATED BINDINGS IN MARSH'S LIBRARY, DUBLIN. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2004. 4to, (240x160mm). 152p. 8 colour & 52 monochrome illustrations. A fine copy in original hardback boards.
Mirjam Foot describes this excellent collection of bindings from the 15th to the 19th centuries, from binders ranging from
Ireland to eastern Europe, including particularly interesting examples from England, Germany, Italy, France, Spain and Holland.
£65.00
17954 FOOT,
Mirjam M. THE HENRY DAVIS GIFT. A COLLECTION OF BOOKBINDINGS. Volume III: A catalogue of South-European bindings. London:
British Library, 2010. 4to, (280x218mm), 527p. 427 illustrations. Original crash canvas, half-title and title pages slightly
creased. Detailed descriptions and discussions on French, Swiss, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese bindings, together with a
chapter on miscellaneous bindings (Eastern Europe, Near and Middle East and Iranian). £75.00
16768 FOSTER, Paul (Editor). MAUREEN DUKE. BOOKBINDER TEACHER
FRIEND. Chichester: University of Chichester, 2008. 8vo, (215x143mm), 112p. 22 colour & 42 monochrome illustrations, with
2 loosely inserted pieces of handmade paper. A fine copy in original paperback (NEW BOOK). An enchanting Album amicorum from
friends who are, or were, colleagues and former students, produced as number 23 of the 'Otter Memorial Papers' to
celebrate the 80th birthday of a fine bookbinder and extremely gracious lady. £15.00
18844 FRENCH, Hannah Dustin (Introduction) EARLY AMERICAN
BOOKBINDINGS from the collection of Michael Papantonio. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972. Sm.4to, (265x192mm), xii,91p.
61 full-page monochrome plates. Original wrappers, slightly soiled, previous owner's signature on the front free endleaf
Printed at the Stinehour Press. £15.00
16905 GEORGE & Co. BETTER LEATHERCRAFT Practical instructions and hints for beginners in leatherwork.
22nd edition, London: George & Co, Noel Street, Oxford Street, [1935.] 8vo, (215x145mm), (3-),118p. ?lacking a half-title.
numerous illustrations (several in colour) , Modern hardback, bound by John Gardner with his ticket, original front wrapper
which are laid down on the new front cover. A trade catalogue of tools and materials those concerned with leather working.
£18.00
10371 GIBSON,
Strickland ABSTRACTS FROM THE WILLS AND TESTAMENTARY DOCUMENTS OF BINDERS, PRINTERS, AND STATIONERS OF OXFORD FROM 1493 TO
1638. London: Bibliographical Society, 1907. Sm.4to, (220x170mm), xxiv,63p. outer margins lightly browned. A clean ex-library
copy in original quarter linen. £25.00
21051 [GIFFORD, D.H. & others.] DOMESDAY REBOUND. With a preface by Hilary Jenkinson. Third impression,
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1966. 8vo. (245x155mm), viii+56p. 8 plates, 8 text illustrations and 2 folding
charts. An ex-library copy marred only by small rubber-stamps on the recto and verso of the title page in original wrappers.
A analysis of the structure, and an account of the restoration and rebinding, by T.E. Hassall, of one of the fundamental sources
for English history. £10.00
21089 GOODYEAR, F. TEACHING BOOKBINDING CRAFT IN SCHOOLS. A course for juniors and seniors. London: Evans Brothers,
[1936.] Sm.4to, (253x192mm), 59p. +3p. publisher's adverts, 15 illustrations from photographs and 30 from line-drawings.
Original green cloth, lettered in black, backstrip and corner tops faded. Basic instructions for binding with a section on
decorated papers and edge stencilling written by the handicraft and art master of Chatham House School, Ramsgate. £10.00
18785 GOTTS, J. Benjamin. ESTIMATING,
BOOK-KEEPING, SYSTEM, FOR LETTERPRESS AND LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTERS, BINDERS AND STATIONERS. Third edition, London: British Printer,
1906. 8vo, (190x130mm), xxii,105p. +17p trade adverts. original cloth, backstrip faded. £10.00
15419 GRIMSHAW, R. PATTERN MAKING WITH CUT PAPER. Leicester:
Dryad Handicrafts, [1955.] 8vo, (206x134mm), 16p. 14 illustrations. Modern decorated paper wrappers preserving the original
self wrappers. £5.00
16441
GUILD OF BOOKWORKERS. TENTH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION OF THE NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER. Lexington: Museum of our National Heritage...
1992. 1.200 copies, sm.4to, (230x178mm), [26]p. 37 illustrations. A good copy in original wrappers. Includes work by Carol
Blinn, Barbara Blumenthal, Mark Esser, &c. £8.00
19461 [HALLIDAY, J.?] COMBED PATTERN PAPERS. Leicester: Dryad Handicrafts, [1950s]. 8vo
(210x132mm), 12p. 4 colour & 9 monochrome illustrations. Original self wrappers, preserved within modern card covers with
Sue Doncaster paste paper outer wrapper. One of Dryad's excellent series of handicrafts leaflet, in this case number 107
offering instructions for the production of paste paper. £10.00
18117 HALLIDAY, John. BOOKCRAFT AND BOOKBINDING. London: Isaac Pitman, 1951. Cr.8vo,
(190x125mm), viii,120p. 4 plates and 188 line illustrations. Original buckram, slightly soiled, prize label laid down on the
front free endleaf. £15.00
17471
HARRISON, Thomas. THE BOOKBINDING CRAFT AND INDUSTRY. An outline of its history, development, and technique. London: Pitman,
[1926]. 8vo, (187x123mm), xii,128p. +12p trade & publisher's adverts, 62 illustrations (10 full-page). Original cloth,
front hinge strained and the edges lightly rubbed, the small ownership rubber-stamp of C.E. Whitehead, Printer &c, of
Preston on the front free endleaf. The first edition of an excellent historical manual by Harrison who, at the time, was the
principal binder at Wood & Co. £50.00
14588 HARROP, Dorothy A. CRAFT BINDERS AT WORK 5: H.J. DESMOND YARDLEY. [An article in], London: The Book
Collector, volume 22, number 2, Summer, 1975. 8vo, (222x142mm), pp:245-250 (of 185-344p.), 8 plates. Original stiff wrappers.
£6.00
17490 HARTHAN,
John P. VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM BOOKBINDINGS. London: H.M.S.O., 1950. 8vo, (212x139mm), 92p. 67 illustrations. Original
stiff wrappers, covers slightly soiled. The first edition of an illustrated selection of some of the highlights in the V &
A collection with a short descriptive catalogue and historical introduction. £8.00
21091 HARTHAN, John P. VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM BOOKBINDINGS.
London: H.M.S.O., 1950. 8vo, (212x139mm), 92p. 67 illustrations. A good copy in binders' red cloth, gilt lettered on a
black back-label. The first edition of an illustrated selection of some of the highlights in the V & A collection with
a short descriptive catalogue and historical introduction. £8.00
7432 HARTHAN, John P. VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM BOOKBINDINGS. Second Edition. London:
H.M.S.O., 1961. 8vo, (220x138), 112p. 79 illustrations. A good copy in original green cloth, lettered and blocked in gilt
& black. An illustrated selection of some of the highlights in the V & A Museum's collection, with a short descriptive
catalogue and historical introduction. £8.00
16906 HASLUCK, Paul Nooncree. BOOKBINDING. Fifth impression, London: Cassell, 1914. 8vo, (172x102mm),
160p. 125 illustrations. Original cloth, printed wrapper laid down on the front cover, presumably making use of the cover
of the paperback issue to enhance the visual appeal of the hardback, backstrip lettered and blocked in black, adverts on the
endleaves. £30.00
14678
HASLUCK, Paul Nooncree. BOOKBINDING. Twelfth impression. London: Cassell, 1935. 8vo, (185x125mm), 160p +1p. publisher's
adverts. 125 illustrations. Original paperback, slightly soiled.. A remarkably useful, though slightly old-fashioned manual
which was first published in 1902 and is here still going strong three decades later as a volume in Cassell's Amateur
Mechanics & Work series of handbooks. The sections on forwarding and finishing owe a great deal to Zaehnsdorf, while the
chapter on marbling is drawn largely from Woolnough and earlier writers on the subject, with no apparent interest in Halfer's
technical developments. £15.00
4572 [HERBERT, J.A.] BRITISH MUSEUM GUIDE TO THE EXHIBITED MANUSCRIPTS PART III. Illuminated Manuscripts and
Bindings of Manuscripts Exhibited in the Grenville Library. London: [British Museum] By Order of the Trustees, 1923. 8vo,
(218x136mm), 49pp.+ 20 plates. Original printed boards, backstrip faded and a little worn. £5.00
21093 HEWIT, J. & Sons. SKIN DEEP. The biannual newsletter.
Numbers 1 - 11 in 2 volumes. London & Edinburgh: J. Hewit & Sons, 1996-8. 8vo, (217x154mm), approx 24 pages per issue,
illustrations. Slightly soiled in modern binder's red buckram, silver-gilt lettered. A series of technical and historical
articles by various writers issued by a noted firm of leather tanners and suppliers of bookbinding materials. £30.00
21092 HEWITT-BATES, J.S. BOOKBINDING FOR
SCHOOLS. A textbook for teachers and students in primary and secondary schools and training colleges. Fourth edition. Leicester:
Dryad Press, 1946. 8vo, (212x142mm), xii125p. +1p publisher's adverts, 10 plates and 108 text illustrations. Original
red cloth, slightly soiled and the backstrip faded. Printed at the Curwen Press. £15.00
21090 HEWITT-BATES, J.S. BOOKBINDING. Sixth edition, Leicester:
Dryad Press, 1954. 8vo, (222x145mm), xii,127p.11 plates & 105 text illustrations. Original red cloth cloth, gilt lettered,
backstrip slightly faded. Printed at the Curwen Press and including the author's essay on Two methods of marbling, and
a chapter on graining and staining papers for endleaves and covers. £15.00
19462 HEWITT-BATES & J. HALLIDAY. TWO METHODS OF MARBLING. Leicester:
Dryad Handicrafts, [1940s] 8vo, (212x140mm), 12p. illustrations. Original self wrappers slightly soiled, preserved within
modern card covers with marbled paper outer wrapper. Contains details of the Carragheen Moss and Oil Colour techniques of
marbling paper. £15.00
18720
HOBSON, G.D. BLIND-STAMPED PANELS IN THE ENGLISH BOOK TRADE c.1485-1555. London: Bibliographical Society, 1944. Sm.4to (218x170mm),
111p. 8 plates. Original wrappers, edges slightly frayed. £35.00
16165 HOLLISTON (Book Cloth Manufacturers) ROXITE CAXTON GL BUCKRAM. [A sample book.]
Scarborough, Ontario: Holliston, [1987.] Oblong sm.8vo, (130x226mm), title (printed on cloth) and 28 full-size samples. Original
cloth, the samples secured with a binding bolt. Examples of the full range of Pyroxylin impregnated and coated vermin and
moisture resistant book covering material for 'whenever you require a product that must retain its good looks under hard
use.' £15.00
17582
HOLME, G.C. Editor. MODERN BOOK PRODUCTION. London: The Studio, 1928. 4to, (297x235mm), viii,186p. 291 illustrations, a number
printed in two or more colours and including tipped-in plates. An internally slightly soiled ex-library copy in original qtr
art vellum, decorated paper sides, discoloured. A well-illustrated general survey of contemporary book design, including illustration
and bookbinding, in Europe and the USA, with short essays by Bernard Newdigate, Will Ransom, S.H. De Roos, and others. £20.00
9728 HORNE, Herbert P. THE BINDING OF
BOOKS. An essay in the history of gold-tooled bindings. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1894. 8vo, (207x125mm),
xvi,224p. 12 plates & 2 text illustrations. Original buckram, backstrip faded and edges slightly soiled, fore and tail
edges untrimmed. A volume in the Books About Books series, the first edition (with more plates than in the later reprint)
printed on handmade paper. £20.00
17467 HOWE, Ellic. A LIST OF LONDON BOOKBINDERS 1648-1815. London: Bibliographical Society, 1950. Sm.4to,
(220x175mm), xxxviii,105p. Free endleaves lightly browned, otherwise a good copy. Original quarter holland. £20.00
8759 HOWE, Ellic & John CHILD. THE
SOCIETY OF LONDON BOOKBINDERS 1780-1951. London: Sylvan Press, 1952. 8vo, (223x139 mm), 288p. An ex-library copy in original
brown cloth, lettered and blocked in gilt. 'An excellent introduction to the history of binding trade associations and
social conditions.' (Myers British Book Trade 33) £20.00
10598 HULME, E. Wyndham & others. LEATHER FOR LIBRARIES. London: Published for the
... Library Association by The Leather Supply Co. 1905. 8vo, (215x137mm), 57p. +16p adverts for book binders & the leather
industry. 6 original samples of bookbinding leather mounted in coffins in the front and rear pastedown endleaves. A clean
ex-library copy in later binders' buckram. £80.00
18935 HUTTON, Catherine. THE LIFE OF WILLIAM HUTTON, F.A.S.S. Including a particular
account of the riots at Birmingham in 1791, to which is subjoined, the history of his family, written by himself, and published
by his daughter. London: Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy; and Beilby and Knotts, Birmingham, 1816. 8vo, (210x132mm), viii,398p.
Frontispiece portrait engraved by Thomas Ranson; the frontis. and title page heavily browned, some occasional spotting thereafter.
Modern quarter cloth. Hutton was initially an apprentice in a Derby silk mill before undertaking a second apprenticeship as
a stocking-maker in Nottingham. In 1746, seeing bookbinding as an alternative occupation to stocking-making he began to teach
himself bookbinding on books bought cheaply; firstly on three unbound volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine which he fastened
together in a rough way. The binding materials and tools available locally were inadequate, and in 1749, to acquire better,
he borrowed 3 guineas from his sister and walked to London and back, covering the 129 miles each way in three days and spending
10s. 8d. on board and lodging. He resolved to set up as a bookseller, bookbinder, and stationer in Birmingham which had impressed
him with the beauty of its buildings and the vivacity of its people. As a preliminary step he took a shop in the market place
in Southwell, where there was no other bookseller, and every Saturday walked the 14 miles from Nottingham and back, carrying
up to 30 lb. In 1750, Hutton settled in Birmingham where the best part of his stock was the 'refuse' of the library
of a Presbyterian minister Ambrose Rudsdell (1707-1750), he soon prospered, saving £20 in his first year, moving into
a better shop in the High Street, and opening Birmingham's first circulating library in 1751. In 1756 Hutton set up a
paper warehouse in the High Street, the first in Birmingham, which was profitable enough to encourage him to build a paper
mill on Handsworth Heath in 1759. The mill was not a commercial success and he abandoned it in 1762. In 1766 he began to speculate
in land, an activity which he continued with success into old age, and in 1769 he bought half an acre at Bennett's Hill,
Saltley where he built himself a country house. Well known as a dissenter and as one of the group of radical thinkers of which
Joseph Priestley was the most prominent member, Hutton suffered severely in the rioting which followed a dinner held in Birmingham
on 14 July 1791 to celebrate the second anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. Even though Hutton had declined an invitation
to attend the dinner and taken no part in the political and religious disputes of the time, the mob attacked Hutton's
house in High Street. He offered to buy them off but they dragged him to the Fountain tavern where he was presented with a
bill for 329 gallons of ale. Nonetheless, his house and furniture were destroyed later that evening. £400.00
20293 INSTITUTE OF PAPER CONSERVATION.
CONFERENCE NOTES: 10TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE. New directions in paper conservation, 14-18 April. Oxford. Compiled and designed
by Alan Howell. Leigh: Institute of Paper Conservation, 1986. 4to, (320x265mm), 268p. illustrations. Original spring-backed
rexine covered folder, previous owner's rubber stamp on the title.. The 'starter pack; given to all delegates with
information on the programme, speakers, trade fair, &c and 139 pages of abstracts from the papers presented. £15.00
18916 INSTITUTE OF PAPER CONSERVATION.
THE PAPER CONSERVATOR. Volume 2. Edited by Guy Petherbridge. London: Institute of Paper Conservation, 1977 4to, (295x210mm),
56p. illustrations. Original stiff wrappers, an ex-library copy marred only by a rubber stamp on the from cover. Contents
include: Moira Buick, One method of sewing single sheets for binding; Margaret Hey, Paper bleaching: its simple chemistry
and working procedures; Melvyn, Guarding and filing: the assemblage and binding of miscellaneous documents, and Ian Moor,
The Ambroytype: research into its restoration and conservation part 2. £20.00
2612 INSTITUTE OF PAPER CONSERVATION. THE PAPER CONSERVATOR Volume
4. Journal of the Institute of Paper Conservation. Edited by Guy Petherbridge. Worcester: Institute of Paper Conservation,
1979. 4to, (196x208mm). 84p. 95 illustrations. Original stiff wrappers, spine slightly faded. Contents include Thomas Collings
& Derek Milner The Identification of non-wood paper-making fibres part 2, and Oriol Valls i Subirà A Lively Look
at papermaking: a series of eighteenth century woodcut cigarette prints. £10.00
17504 INSTITUTE OF PAPER CONSERVATION. THE PAPER CONSERVATOR
Volume 13: EARLY EUROPEAN PAPERS. CONTEMPORARY CONSERVATION PAPERS. Report on research undertaken from fall 1984 through
fall 1987 by Timothy D. Barrett. Journal of the Institute of Paper Conservation. Worcester: Institute of Paper Conservation,
1989. 4to, (296x210mm), 108p. 13 illustrations and 4 specimens of raw flax papers. Original stiff wrappers, lettered in black,
backstrip slightly faded £25.00
19184 JAMMES, André PAPIERS DOMINOTÉS. TRAIT D'UNION ENTRE L'IMAGERIE POPULAIRE ET
LES PAPIERS PEINTS (FRANCE 1750-1820) Paris: Éditions des Cendres 2010. 999 copies, 4to, (250x250mm), 564p. 350 full-page
colour illustrations. A fine copy in original decorated hardback boards. An extensive work devoted to a collection of splendid
illustrations of decorated papers for the covers which were originally used in the 18th century to protect books before their
delivery to bookbinders. Printed images of such well-known themes such as The world turned upside down, The wandering Jew,
and The prodigal son were, often crudely, engraved and brightly stencil-coloured and were produced in the 18th century at
Chartres, Orleans, Le Mans and other French provincial centres; today they offer the modern viewer an outstanding panorama
of contemporary popular arts and traditions. Such images have often survived due to the actions of enlightened enthusiasts
and museum curators and they have been the subject of scholarly research and often lavishly illustrated publications and exhibitions.
The men and women who produced these images belonged to a body of craftsmen who engraved and printed both decorated papers
and wallpaper that also served as box-linings and book coverings. This book recognises the merging of the various uses for
decorated papers, if not necessarily in their origins then at least in their use. However, in general it is to the sheets
of geometric designs or repeated ornament that the term papier dominotés is now generally given. What has been lacking
heretofore is a specific study of these sheets of decorated paper and the uses to which they were put in embellishing and
protecting printed material - such a study is the object of this volume. (NEW BOOK) £185.00
16699 KANTROWITZ, Morris S., & others. BINDERY GLUES.
Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, [1950.] 4to, (280x216mm), [2],14p. printed double-column. Original wrappers,
punched for insertion into a ring binder. GOP-PIA Joint Research Bulletin, Bindery Series No.3. £10.00
16700 KANTROWITZ, Morris S., & others.
BRONZE LEAF STAMPING Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, [1948.] 4to, (280x216mm), iv,8p. printed double-column.
Original wrappers, punched for insertion into a ring binder. GOP-PIA Joint Research Bulletin, Bindery Series No.6. £10.00
10074 KER, Neil R. FRAGMENTS OF MEDIEVAL
MANUSCRIPTS USED AS PASTEDOWNS IN OXFORD BINDINGS. With a survey of Oxford binding c.1515-1620. Oxford: T.A. Broome for Oxford
Bibliographical Society, 1954. 4to, (255x190mm), xx,278p. 14 plates carrying 154 reproductions of rubbings of rolls, centrepieces,
and ornaments. A good ex-institutional library copy, marred only by occasional blind ownership stamps, in original quarter
canvas, green paper boards, corner tips rubbed, bookplate with discard stamp. £40.00
18799 KER, Neil R. FRAGMENTS OF MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS USED
AS PASTEDOWNS IN OXFORD BINDINGS. with a survey of Oxford binding c.1515-1620. Reprinted [with an added addenda and corrigenda].
Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2004. Sm.4to, (252x190mm), xx,278,29p. 155 rolls, centrepieces, and ornaments reproduced
on 14 plates. A good copy in original quarter canvas. £45.00
19493 KOCH, Jeanett, Editor. BOUND FOR SUCCESS. Catalogue for Designer Bookbinders International
Competition 2009. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2009. 4to, (264x196mm), 316p. colour ilustrations. Original hardback. (NEW BOOK)
Published to celebrate the winning entries in the prestigious 2009 Designer Bookbinders international competition held at
the Bodleian Library, this catalogue illustrates some of the most skilful and creative examples of contemporary bookbinding.
£30.00
20984 KOPYLOV,
Christiane F. PAPIERS DORÉS D'ALLEMAGNE AU SIÈCLE DES LUMIÈRES suivis de quelques autres papiers
décorés (Bilderbogen, Kattunpapier & Herrnhutpapiere) 1680-1830. Paris: Éditions des Cendres, 2012.
999 copies, 4to, (250x250mm), 445p. 198 full-page and many other smaller colour illustrations. A fine copy in original decorated
paper boards, lettered in silver gilt. A worthy companion to Andre Jamme's Papiers dominotés (2010), and in this
instance presents a wonderful collection of German decorated papers of the long eighteenth century; including examples of
block-printed, so-called 'Dutch-gilt' and Herrnhut paste decorated papers. Most, if not all, of the papers illustrated
here are simply stunning and each of the illustrated examples is supported by notes with the whole preceded by a lengthy introductory
essay. £135.00
20985
KOPYLOV, Marc. PAPIERS DOMINOTÉS FRANÇAIS ou l'art de revêtir d'éphémères
couvertures colorées livres & brochures entre 1750 et 1820. Paris: Éditions des Cendres, 2012. 999 copies,
4to, (250x250mm), 407p. 203 full-page and other smaller colour illustrations. A fine copy in original decorated paper boards,
lettered in silver gilt. A worthy companion to Andre Jamme's Papiers dominotés (2010), and in this instance presents
a wonderful collection of French block-printed decorated papers, mainly polychrome, of the long eighteenth century. Most,
if not all, of the papers illustrated here are simply stunning and each of the illustrated examples is supported by notes
with the whole preceded by a lengthy introductory essay. £135.00
20986 KOPYLOV, Marc. PAPIERS DOMINOTÉS ITALIENS un univers de coleurs, de fantaisie
er d'invention 1750-1850. Paris: Éditions des Cendres, 2012. 999 copies, 4to, (250x250mm), 405p. 2693 colour illustrations,
many full-page. A fine copy in original decorated paper boards, lettered in silver gilt. A worthy companion to Andre Jamme's
Papiers dominotés (2010), and in this instance presents a wonderful collection of Italian block-printed decorated papers,
mainly polychrome, produced from the middle of the eighteen to the middle of the nineteenth century and includes reproductions
of all the pages of a contemporary sample book. Most, if not all, of the papers illustrated here are simply stunning and each
of the illustrated examples is supported by notes with the whole preceded by a lengthy introductory essay. £135.00
10502 LEHMANN-HAUPT, Hellmut, Editor.
BOOKBINDING IN AMERICA. Three essays: Early American bookbinding by hand by Hannah Dustin French, The rise of American edition
binding by Joseph W. Rogers and On the rebinding of old books by Hellmutt Lehmann-Haupt. Portland: Southworth-Anthoensen Press,
1941. 8vo, (238x153mm), xx,293p. 73 plates. Apart from some slight browning at the hinge on the front and rear paste down
endleaves, a good copy in original half cloth. £35.00
12816 LEWIS, Arthur W. BASIC BOOKBINDING. London: B.T. Batsford, 1952. Cr.8vo, (190x130mm),
xii,144p. + 3p. trade adverts, 11 plates and 127 text illustrations. Original cloth, slightly faded. £10.00
21112 LEWIS, Arthur W. BASIC BOOKBINDING.
Reprinted, New York: Dover, 1957 Cr.8vo, (190x130mm), xii,144p. 11 plates and 127 text illustrations. Original colour-illustrated
paperback. £3.00
17372
LINDBERG, Sten G. DEN SVENSKA BOKBANDSKONSTENS GLANSPERIOD. An article in Biblis. Stockholm: Arsbok utgiven av Foreningen
for Bokhantverk, 1957. 8vo, (230x145mm), 101p. illustrations. Original wrappers, front cover slightly soiled. £15.00
17558 LINDSAY, Jen FINE BOOK BINDING A
TECHNICAL GUIDE London: British Library, 2009. 4to, (250x230mm), 192p. numerous illustrations. A fine copy in original paperback.
The purpose of this book is to provide a guide through each stage of making a book bound in leather, a 'fine binding':
a book fully covered in leather, with leather-jointed endpapers, gilt edges, and leather doublures. It is designed to be used
as step-by-step handbook and is arranged as a numbered index of the processes and sequence of operations involved, together
with their rationale. £35.00
16356 LORING, Rosamond B. DECORATED BOOK PAPERS. Being an account of their designs and fashions. Fourth edition.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. 750 copies, 8vo, (215x157mm), xciv,[2],173p. 80 colour plates. Original hardback.
(NEW BOOK) This new edition of Rosamond Loring's classic text on decorated papers is more than merely a reprint for it
not only contains her text, unchanged from the earlier three editions, but also colour illustrations newly photographed from
the actual papers, themselves from Loring's collection, that were included in Philip Hofer's copy of the deluxe first
edition of 1942. Furthermore, this edition includes memoirs of Loring written by Walter Muir Whitehill, Dard Hunter, and Veronica
Ruzicka (first published in the second edition of 1952), together with a new account of Loring's life by Hope Mayo. The
text includes the results of Loring's researches into early decorated papers used in bookbinding: marbled, paste, Dutch
gilt, publishers' and pictorial papers together with appendices devoted to the art of marbling, preparation of paste papers
and a list of some early makers of decorated papers. £37.95
16910 LOUDON, J.H. JAMES SCOTT AND WILLIAM SCOTT, BOOKBINDERS, London: Scolar Press, 1980. Roy.8vo,
(260x176mm), xxvi,414p. 641 illustrations (including 490 of tools and rolls). A very good copy in original cloth, dustjacket.
An authoritative study of the important Edinburgh bookbinders with illustrations of most of the known bindings. £45.00
14886 MASON, John. A BOOK BINDER MAKES
PAPER. An offprint from Penrose 53. [London: Lund Humphries,] 1959. 4to, (285x208mm) p.80-83, 4 illustrations. Original printed
wrappers, spine faded. £5.00
18288 MASON, John. BOOKBINDING AND RULING. Letterpress bookbinding, edition case binding, stationery binding,
loose-leaf books, machine ruling. London: Isaac Pitman, 1933. 8vo, (190x127mm), viii,320p. 178 illustrations. Original cloth,
stitching slightly strained. Volume 5 of The Art and Practice of Printing series issued under the general editorship of William
Atkins. £25.00
21115
MASON, John. A PRACTICAL COURSE IN BOOKCRAFTS AND BOOKBINDING. Second edition, Leicester: Edgar Backus, 1947. 8vo, (220x140mm),
[10],215p. +1p trade advert. 95 photographic & many line-drawn diagrammatic illustrations. Original green cloth, gilt
lettered, slightly spotted; dustjacket expertly repaired. £30.00
21055 MASON, John & E.A. HALESTRAP. CRAFTS IN LINSON. Linwood: R. & W. Watson,
1951. 8vo, (222x145mm), 101p. +2p. adverts. numerous illustrations from line-drawings and photographs. Contemporary green
cloth, a large illustration of a bookbinder from Jost Amman's Ständebuch of 1568 blocked in gilt on the front cover
and gilt lettered on the backstrip. Printed in Leicester by C.H. Gee and Co, this book provides details for a number of bookbinding
and other crafts employing Linson bookcloth. Doubts as to whether or not this is an original publisher's binding are raised
by a statement on the verso of the title: 'Bound in Linson pre-printed with "Sylvia design" and with "Sylvia
patterned" endpapers.' The covers of the this volume are bound in plain cloth with white endleaves of white paper,
there is however a colour-plate showing 6 Sylva paper designs together with a list of suppliers. £20.00
14393 McLEAN, Ruari. VICTORIAN PUBLISHERS’
BOOK-BINDINGS IN CLOTH AND LEATHER. London: Gordon Fraser, 1974. 4to, (298x205mm), 160p. 18 colour & 180 monochrome
illustrations ( a number full-page). An ex-library copy with rubber-stamp on the title page recto, in original buckram, an
illustration roundel onlay on the front cover, printed in black and framed in gilt, dustjacket £50.00
21080 [MELLORS, William (Editor)]. THE
BOOKBINDING TRADES JOURNAL. Volume 2 numbers 1,3-7,11-16 (12 parts in all). Manchester: Bookbinders and Machine Rulers'
Consolidated Union, 1910-14. 8vo, (218x150mm) 16,(33-)112,(161-)256p. numerous illustrations, small colour stain on 2 leaves.
Near-contemporary binders' cloth. The contents includes (in whole or part): Thomas Harrison, The principles of design
as applied to book decoration, and The organic element in design; 'Mancunian,' Book edge marbling; Thomas Hanson,
Edwards of Halifax; S. Gigney, Banding and lacing account books; &c. £90.00
18811 MICHON, Louis-Marie. LA RELIURE FRANCAISE. Paris: Librairie
Larousse, 1951. Cr.8vo, (175x112mm), 146p. 64 plates. Later binders' cloth preserving the original stiff wrappers. £25.00
21117 MIDDLETON, Bernard C. A HISTORY
OF ENGLISH CRAFT BOOKBINDING TECHNIQUE. With a foreword by Howard Nixon. New York & London: Hafner, 1963. 8vo, (235x1650mm),
xvi,307p. colour frontispiece, 11 monochrome plates & 91 text illustrations. A good copy in original buckram, dustjacket;
T.L.s from the author loosely inserted. £20.00
21118 MIDDLETON, Bernard C. RECOLLECTIONS. A life in bookbinding. London: British Library, 2000.
Roy.8vo, (260x185mm), 140p, 46 colour & 40 monochrome plates. An ex-library copy in original brown cloth, gilt lettered,
dustjacket. The autobiography of one of the world's foremost bookbinders and restorers. £5.00
1157 MITCHELL, John. AN INTRODUCTION TO GOLD FINISHING. New
revised edition, Billinghurst: Standing Press, 2005. 4to, (275x190mm), 102p. 105 illustrations. A fine copy in original illustrated
paperback. A revised reprint of this extremely detailed and well-illustrated step-by-step guide from basic book gilding techniques
to the completion of a full-gilt back, it has been reset with some corrections and a little added wisdom plus a little 'easing'
of some of the explanations. Chapters include: preparations for gold tooling, marking up, tooling through a template, adhesives
for gold finishing, tooling with gold leaf, cleaning off the gold, function and use of finishing tools, &c. £40.00
1156 MITCHELL, John. CRAFTSMAN'S GUIDE
TO EDGE DECORATION. New revised edition, Billinghurst: Standing Press, 2005. 4to, (275x190mm), 100p. 77 illustrations. A fine
copy in original paperback (NEW BOOK). Covers the techniques of all aspects of book edge decoration with chapters on
the equipment needed and sizes used, edge colouring, sprinkling, edge marbling, gilding on the flat, round and foredge (together
with repairs to gilded edges), gauffering, colour under gold, and foredge painting. £40.00
19419 MITCHELL, William Smith. A HISTORY OF SCOTTISH BOOKBINDING
1432 to 1650. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1955. 8vo, (224x145mm.), xii,150p. 48 plates. A good ex-library copy, marred only
by a small rubber-stamp in the tail margin of the title in original cloth. The definitive work on Scottish binding of the
period and including an appendix which lists, with biographical details, all known Scottish binders of the period. £95.00
18150 MUIR, David. BINDING AND REPAIRING
BOOKS BY HAND. New York: Arco, 1978. Sm.4to, (254x190mm), 120p. 79 line illustrations from drawings by Richard Bawden. A good
copy in original hardback boards, dustjacket. £20.00
17191 NIXON, Howard M. FIVE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH BOOKBINDING. Second impression, London:
Scolar Press, 1979. Imp.8vo, (253x170mm), 232,[9]p. 100 full-page illustrations. A very good copy in original cloth, dustjacket.
A collection of Howard Nixon's case-studies of individual bookbindings which originally appeared quarterly in the Book
Collector over a period of 25 years. £45.00
18899 NIXON, Howard M. ROYAL ENGLISH BOOKBINDINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. London: British Museum,
1957. 8vo, (213x135mm), 8p +16 plates. Original wrappers, slightly creased, previous owner's surname on the front cover.
£10.00
18910 OLDHAM,
J. Basil SHREWSBURY SCHOOL LIBRARY BINDINGS. Catalogue Raisonné (1943). Reprinted, New York: Garland, 1990. 4to, (285x218mm),
[4],xl,185p. frontispiece & 62 plates (including 20 carrying reproductions of 329 rolls, tools and palettes). A good copy
in original cloth. A photographic reprint of the original edition produced at the Oxford University Press for Shrewsbury School;
although the plates have lost something in 'translation' they are still perfectly acceptable. £45.00
19415 PACKER, Maurice. BOOKBINDERS OF
VICTORIAN LONDON 1837-1901. London: British Library, 1991. Sm.4to, (253x193mm), 253p. line-drawn frontispiece. Apart from
a small rubber-stamp on the title verso, a very good ex-library copy in original hardback boards.. An extensive listing of
bookbinding businesses in the cities of London and Westminster in the Victorian era, with listings of all recorded addresses
and occasional biographical notes and names of partners of firms. £50.00
14403 PEARCE, W.B. PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. A text-book intended for
those who take up the art of bookbinding, and designed to give sufficient help to enable handy persons to bind their books
and periodicals. London: Percival Marshall, [1908.] Cr.8vo, (183x124mm), 104p. 92 illustrations. Soiled in original boards
which have been later covered with binders' cloth. £12.00
6293 PEARSON, David (Editor). FOR THE LOVE OF THE BINDING. Studies in bookbinding history
presented to Mirjam Foot. London: British Library, 2000. Sm.4to, (285x220mm), xiv,378p. 44 coloured & 220 monochrome illustrations.
A fine copy in original cloth-backed boards. A well-deserved festschrift honouring Mirjam Foot's contribution to the study
of the history of bookbinding, with contributions by Robin Myers, Michael Gullick, Christopher de Hamel, Lotte Hellinga, Elly
Cocx-Indestege, Giles Barber, Anthony Hobson, Laura Nuvolini, Nicolas Barker, Nicholas Pickwoad, David Pearson, Elisabeth
Leedham-Green, John Morris, Vanessa Marshall, Jan Storm van Leeuwen, David Paisley, Richard Ovendon, Bryan Maggs, John Collins,
Paul Morgan, Esther Potter, Christian Coppens,Edmund M.B. King, Marianne Tidcombe, Anna Simoni, Dorothy A. Harrop, and P.J.M.
Marks. A detailed list of the papers included is available upon request. £40.00
7024 PEARSON, David. OXFORD BOOKBINDING 1500-1640. Including
a Supplement of Neil Ker's Fragments of Medieval Manuscripts Used as Pastedowns in Oxford Bindings. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical
Society, 2000. Sm.4to (244x185mm), xii,226p. 293 illustrations including reproductions of rubbings of individual rolls, corner
ornaments, centre pieces, &c. Original quarter linen. (NEW BOOK) An excellent and detailed study of an important period
of English binding which includes biographical notes on the binders, the lengthy supplement to Ker's 'Fragments',
and Graham Pollard's lecture John Dorne as an Oxford Bookbinder, delivered to the Bibliographical Society in 1976, here
published for the first time. £60.00
21303 PEARSON, David. OXFORD BOOKBINDING 1500-1640. Including a Supplement of Neil Ker's Fragments of
Medieval Manuscripts Used as Pastedowns in Oxford Bindings. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2000. Sm.4to (244x185mm),
xii,226p. 293 illustrations including reproductions of rubbings of individual rolls, corner ornaments, centre pieces, &c.
A very good copy in original quarter linen, boards. An excellent and detailed study of an important period of English binding
which includes biographical notes on the binders, the lengthy supplement to Ker's 'Fragments', and Graham Pollard's
lecture John Dorne as an Oxford Bookbinder, delivered to the Bibliographical Society in 1976, here published for the first
time. £60.00
21047
PERCIVAL, G.S. & R.A. GRAHAM UNSEWN BINDING. Second edition, reprinted Leicester: Dryad Press, 1979. 8vo, (215x140mm),
40p. 33 illustrations by Rigby Graham. A good copy in original stiff wrappers. £15.00
21125 PLENDERLEITH, H.J. THE PRESERVATION OF LEATHER BOOKBINDINGS.
London: British Museum, 1946 Cr.8vo, (180x133mm), 24p. 4illustrations. Original limp grey cloth, backstrip faded. £6.00
17535 PLENDERLEITH, H.J. THE PRESERVATION
OF LEATHER BOOKBINDINGS. Fifth Impression. London: British Museum, 1957. 8vo, (190x137mm), 24p. 4 plates. A very good copy
in original cloth. £10.00
17534
PLENDERLEITH, H.J. THE PRESERVATION OF LEATHER BOOKBINDINGS. New impression, London: British Museum, 1967 Cr.8vo, (168x90mm),
32p. 4 plates. A good copy in original quarter cloth. £10.00
21126 PLENDERLEITH, H.J. THE PRESERVATION OF LEATHER BOOKBINDINGS. New format edition,
Second impression, London: British Museum, 1970 Cr.8vo, (168x90mm), 32p. 4 plates. A good copy in original quarter cloth.
£10.00
17884 POLLARD,
Alfred W. OLD PICTURE BOOKS. With other essays on bookish subjects. London: Methuen, 1902. 8vo, (222x145mm), [10],282p. +40p.
publisher's adverts, 90 illustrations. An ex-library copy in later binders' cloth. The 'other essays' include
chapters on The transference of woodcuts in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Pictorial and heraldic initials letters,
The first English book sale, John Durie's 'Reformed librarie-keeper', woodcuts in English plays printed before
1660, printers' marks of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, The Franks collection of armorial book stamps, &c.,
and by Alice Pollard: A Queen Anne pocket-book, &c. £12.00
15410 POLLARD, Graham. THE NAMES OF SOME ENGLISH FIFTEENTH-CENTURY BINDERS. [An extract
from the Library, Fifth Series, Vol. XXV.] London: Bibliographical Society, 1970. 8vo, (247x162mm), [26]p. 7 plates. Modern
quarter cloth. £15.00
16425
QUARITCH, Bernard. A CATALOGUE OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN BOOKBINDINGS offered for sale. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1921. 4to,
(310x245mm), viii,76p.+colour frontispiece & 79 plates (5 coloured). A handsome copy in late 20th-century full dark brown
morocco, Cockerell marbled paper endleaves. Descriptions of 329 bindings, the colour plates are printed by a process similar
to that perfected by Griggs at the end of the 19th century, with the gold-tolling and other ornamental die-stamped (or a similar
added process) to allow a tactile quality to the reproduction. £60.00
1319 RAMSDEN, Charles. LONDON BOOKBINDERS 1780-1840. Reprinted, London:
Batsford, 1987. Sm.4to, (248x183mm), xiv,155p. 40 plates. A very good copy in original boards, dustjacket. A very useful directory
of names and addresses of some 2000 London-based bookbinders. £10.00
19322 RATCHFORD, F.J. ANTIGUA WATERPROOF LIBRARY BUCKRAM. Stockport:
F.J. Ratchford, [1980s.] 4to, (298x230mm), A laminated card folder carrying 19 laid-down variously coloured samples of bookcloth,
punched at the spine for insertion in a ring-binder. £5.00
19325 RATCHFORD, F.J. CASCADE WATERPROOF BOOKCLOTH. Stockport: F.J. Ratchford, [1980s.]
4to, (298x230mm), A laminated card folder carrying 11 laid-down variously coloured samples of bookcloth, punched at the spine
for insertion in a ring-binder. £5.00
19326 RATCHFORD, F.J. CLASSIC P.V.C. COATED PAPER. Stockport: F.J. Ratchford, [1980s.] 4to, (298x230mm),
A laminated card folder carrying 13 laid-down variously coloured samples of book covering material, punched at the spine for
insertion in a ring-binder. £5.00
19328 RATCHFORD, F.J. LIBRA COVERING PAPER. Stockport: F.J. Ratchford, [1980s.] 4to, (298x230mm), A laminated
card folder carrying 22 laid-down variously coloured samples of book covering material, punched at the spine for insertion
in a ring-binder. £5.00
19329
RATCHFORD, F.J. LIBRA COVERING PAPER. Stockport: F.J. Ratchford, [1986.] 4to, (300x210mm), A laminated card folder carrying
21 laid-down variously coloured samples of book covering material, slightly soiled. £5.00
17634 RATCHFORD, F.J. SAMPLE BOOK OF RATCHFORD BOOKCLOTHS:
THE COLLECTION. Stockport: Ratchfords, Kennedy Way, Green Lane, [1980s] 4to, (317x270mm), 6 card fascicules (each of two leaves)
carrying 97 mounted samples of various sizes (mainly smallish). Original spring-clip loose-leaf binder, slightly soiled. Contains
folders showing Antigua waterproof library buckram, Cascade waterproof book cloth, Classic PVC coated paper, Libra covering
paper, Spice quality book cloth, and Tudor bookbinding cloth. £25.00
19330 RATCHFORD, F.J. SPICE QUALITY BOOKCLOTH. Stockport: F.J. Ratchford,
[1980s.] 4to, (298x230mm), A laminated card folder carrying 18 laid-down variously coloured samples of bookcloth, punched
at the spine for insertion in a ring-binder. £5.00
19333 RATCHFORD, F.J. STOCK RANGE REXINE FOR BOOKBINDING AND CASE COVERING. Stockport: F.J. Ratchford,
[1983.] 4to, (300x208mm), A triple folded card folder carrying 48 laid-down variously samples of bookbinding material.
£5.00
19331 RATCHFORD,
F.J. TUDOR BOOKBINDING CLOTH. Stockport: F.J. Ratchford, [1980s.] 4to, (298x230mm), A laminated card folder carrying 12 laid-down
variously coloured samples of bookcloth, punched at the spine for insertion in a ring-binder. £5.00
7370 REED, R. Editor. SYMPOSIUM ON PRINTING.
Leeds: Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 1971. Sm.4to, (254x190mm), [10],89p. colour frontispiece, 24 monochrome plates
& 8 text illustrations. A good copy in original cloth. Contents include: P. Waters, Problems of restoring old books, R.C.
Alston, Old books and their reproduction, John Dreyfus The design of type faces, and I. Manton Chinese prints and printing.
£8.00
19611 ROBINSON,
Ivor. INTRODUCING BOOKBINDING. London: Batsford, 1968. Sq.8vo, (210x210mm), 112p. 198 illustrations from photographs. An ex-library
copy marred by rubber-stamps on the title verso and front free endleaf, in original boards, dustjacket. £28.00
20043 ROBINSON, Ivor & Bernard MIDDLETON
Editors.MODERN BRITISH BOOKBINDINGS. [Catalogue of] An exhibition of modern British bookbindings by members of Designer Bookbinders.
[Together with] Supplementary catalogue... London: Designer Bookbinders, 1971. 4to, (238x242mm), 63; 18p. 31 plates. Original
stiff wrappers, front cover a little browned at the edges, bookplate. An invitation to the private view at the Victoria &
Albert Museum loosely inserted. A travelling exhibition in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and London October 1971 to July
1972. Catalogue designed by Philip Smith. £25.00
16944 RYE, Reginald Arthur & Muriel Sinton QUINN. HISTORICAL AND ARMORIAL BOOKBINDINGS EXHIBITED
IN THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. Descriptive catalogue. London: University of London, 1937. Sm.4to, (228x177mm), x,49p. 11 plates.
Original wrappers, slightly faded. Formerly Desmond Flower's copy with his signature on the half-title. Printed at the
Chiswick Press. £30.00
10531
SCHMOLLER, Tanya. A YORKSHIRE SOURCE OF DECORATED PAPER IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Sheffield: [The Author], 2003. 4to, (280x185mm),
28p. 2 samples of paste paper made by Victoria Hall in facsimile of 18th century Herrnhut paper, 6 colour & 9 monochrome
illustrations. A very good copy in original jacketed wrappers. (NEW BOOK). An account of the decorated paste paper productions
of the Moravian sisters who settled at Fulneck, near Pudsey in Yorkshire in the 18th century. Quite apart from the fascinating
account Tanya Schmoller has woven, the booklet is particularly useful to the book trade historian, as the contents include
details of the provincial tradesmen, mainly in the book trades and located in the north and midlands, to whom the sisters
supplied decorated papers. £18.00
14534 SHANNON, Faith (Introduction). DESIGNER BOOKBINDERS 1987. [Catalogue of] An exhibition of recent bookbindings
at Leighton House. London: Designer Bookbinders, 1987. 4to, (266x207mm), 53p. + adverts, 16 colour plates. A very good copy
in original colour printed stiff wrappers. £15.00
21127 SMITH, F.R. BOOKBINDING. Reprinted, London: Isaac Pitman, 1950. Cr.8vo, (186x124mm), xiv,113p.
31 full-page illustrations. A clean ex-library copy in original linen backed boards, dustjacket frayed. A volume in Pitman's
Craft for All series. £10.00
16914 SOCIETY OF BOOKBINDERS. BOOKBINDER Volume 3. Journal of the Society of Bookbinders and Book Restorers.
Edited by William Bull. [London]: Society of Bookbinders and Book Restorers, 1989. 4to, (250x182mm), 53p. +18p. adverts, colour
and monochrome illustrations. A very copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains: Rolando Biondi, An alternative
method of re-attaching boards to a bookblock; James Brockman, One kind of training; John L Coleman, Profile: John Edwards
McIntyre; Graham Day, Abri: the mysterious art of paper marbling; Richard Hills, Paper for books, advances and disasters;
Salim Quraishi, A survey of the development of papermaking in Islamic countries; Jack C Thompson, Technology of the medieval
books: hog bristle needles and wooden boards; Michael Wilcox, Making cloisonne-style blocks and finishing tools. £13.50
20990 SOCIETY OF BOOKBINDERS. BOOKBINDER
Volume 4. Journal of the Society of Bookbinders. Edited by Ron Clarke. [London]: Society of Bookbinders, 1990. 4to, (250x182mm),
34p. +10p. adverts, monochrome illustrations. A very good copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains: Michael
Duckworth, For the encouragement of learning; Sam Ellenport, The new craftsmen; Trevor Jones, Getting down to it - binding
a miniature book; Dorothy Smith, Letter from Prague; Philip Smith, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville; and Members' portfolio.
£25.00
16916 SOCIETY
OF BOOKBINDERS. BOOKBINDER Volume 9. Journal of the Society of Bookbinders. Edited by Liz Anderton & Dermott Creece. [London]:
Society of Bookbinders, 1995. 4to, (250x182mm), 66p. +6p adverts, colour & monochrome illustrations. A very good
copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains: Ron Clarke, An amateur bookbinder's tale; Sif Dagmar Dornheim,
Songs, poems and miscellanea in the bookbinding trade; Maureen Duke, The Romanian enterprise; Rodney Hobbs, University of
Birmingham Library new bindery and conservation unit; Arthur W Johnson, Paper – some of its varieties; Chris Laver-Gibbs,
British 19th century papers; Robert Sheehy, The re-attachment of covers in tight-back bindings; Tony Ward, An introduction
to bound account books; together with two profiles: John Mitchell a profile and Maureen Duke a passion for bookbinding, and
illustrations of bindings from the 1995 competition. £13.50
16917 SOCIETY OF BOOKBINDERS. BOOKBINDER Volume 10. Journal of the Society of Bookbinders.
Edited by Liz Anderton & Dermott Creece. [London]: Society of Bookbinders, 1996. 4to, (250x182mm), 68p. +4p adverts, colour
& monochrome illustrations. A very good copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. (NEW BOOK) Contains:
John Allison, Cuir-ciselé; Sif Dagmar Dornheim, The bookbinders' half-hour tea strike 1806; Maureen Duke, Are you
working comfortably?; J Rosemary Greager, There's a book in there somewhere; Edmund King, Victorian books with decorated
cloth covers; Sally Martin, Bookbinding equipment; John Mitchell, The need for education in bookbinding; David & Jill
Sellars, Countdown to Booker. £13.50
20996 SOCIETY OF BOOKBINDERS. BOOKBINDER Volume 12. Journal of the Society of Bookbinders. Edited by Mel
Jefferson. [London]: Society of Bookbinders, 1998. 4to, (245x175mm), 70p. +10p. adverts, colour & monochrome illustrations.
A very good copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains: Anthony Cains, Apollo & Pegasus; Mark Cockram,
Studio live; Paul Delrue; The binding of The Book of Jonah; Mel Jefferson, A (book) burning question and In conversation with
Jim Brockman; Gene Mahon, A simple but effective binding structure; Nicholas Spencer, The bindery at Quarr Abbey; Julian Thomas,
On the edge (step-by-step edge gilding); John van Oosterom, In defence of handmade papers; and Member's recent bindings.
£25.00
20998 SOCIETY
OF BOOKBINDERS. BOOKBINDER Volume 14. Journal of the Society of Bookbinders. Edited by Mel Jefferson. [London]: Society of
Bookbinders, 2000. 4to, (248x178mm), 72p + 8p adverts, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations. A very good copy in
original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains: Carmencho Arregui,The label binding; Jim Brockman, Rigid flexibility;
John Gardner, An apprenticeship remembered; Mel Jefferson, The quite one: an interview with Flora Ginn; Bernard Middleton,
bcm@rit: a library transplanted; John Mitchell, Chalk & cheese; Gerald Nason, Yes, but is
it bookbinding?; Mark Pinney & Bex Marriott, Change of decay; Mark Ramsden, Binding the Ancient Mariner; Julian Thomas,
Hidden treasures: fine bindings from the National Library of Wales; and Member's recent bindings. £13.50
16921 SOCIETY OF BOOKBINDERS. BOOKBINDER
Volume 15. Journal of the Society of Bookbinders. Edited by Isabel Clark and Alan Isaac. NP: Society of Bookbinders, 2001.
4to (246x170mm), 72p. +8p. adverts, colour and monochrome illustrations. A very good copy in original colour- illustrated
stiff wrappers. Contains: Glenn Bartley, Dyeing art: airbrushing in vellum; J Brian Edwards, The Cambridge panel; Alan Gardiner,
The Belgian experience; Flora Ginn, A patron's portrait [on Bernard Middleton]; David Grange, Time honoured: a traditional
book of hours for the 21st century; Mell Jefferson, Jones the book: an interview with Trevor Jones; Arthur W Johnson,
The teacher's tale; Jozsef Sisitka, Water resistant: a papermill on the River Thames; Dominic Wall, An introduction to
parchment and Member's recent bindings. £13.50
20999 SOCIETY OF BOOKBINDERS. BOOKBINDER Volume 16. Journal of the Society of Bookbinders. Edited
by Isabel Clark and Alan Isaac. [London]: Society of Bookbinders, 2002. 4to (246x170mm), 75p. +5p. adverts, colour and monochrome
illustrations. A very good copy in original colour -illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains: James Brockman & Gordon Cummings,
Education & training; Anthony Dowd, Collecting modern bindings; Clive Hurst, 'Wonderful things': bindlings from
the Bodleian; Alan Isaac, Making good: an interview with Trevor Lloyd; Trevor Lloyd, Cast in brass: finishing tools
made by ABS; Philippa Marks, Binders and keepers: an insider's view on binding at the British Library; Esther Potter,
Good book binders: 19th century Bible bindings; Ann Websper, Aya Nishio - an appreciation ; and Member's recent
bindings. £25.00
16923
SOCIETY OF BOOKBINDERS. BOOKBINDER Volume 17. Journal of the Society of Bookbinders. Edited by Trevor Lloyd and Isabel Clark.
[London]: Society of Bookbinders, 2003. 4to (246x170mm), 70p. +10p. adverts, colour and monochrome illustrations. A very good
copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains: Martin Andrews, The book designs of Robert Gibbings; James Brockman,
The silver Kelmscott Chaucer; George Davidson, Adhesives; Christine Gibbs, Colouring papers; Arthur W Johnson, Lining
& wrappings; Bernard Middleton, William Matthews; Roy Thomson, Towards a longer lasting leather; John Westwood,
Designing for the Folio Society and Member's recent bindings. £13.50
16927 SOCIETY OF BOOKBINDERS. BOOKBINDER Volume 21. Journal of the
Society of Bookbinders. Edited by Trevor Lloyd. [London]: Society of Bookbinders, 2007. 4to, (245x174mm), 68p. +10p. adverts.
numerous illustrations mainly in colour. A very good copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains: Stuart
Brockman, SOB International Competition 2007: the organizer's report and Recent binding; Paul Delrue, Recent binding;
Yvette Fletcher &c., Skin Care: the work of the Leather Conservation Centre; Gordon Hartley, Complete Yorkshire: Bob the
gilder (step by step photographic instruction of edge gilding by Bob Holyroyd); David Pearson, Common of garden: the interest
of ordinary bindings; David Penton, A matter of opinion: Mark Cockram a profile; Dominic Riley, London Strife: the great
bookbinding strike of 1786 and Recent binding. £13.50
18099 SOCIETY OF BOOKBINDERS. BOOKBINDER Volume 23. Edited by Alan Fitch and Paul Gailiunas.
[London]: Society of Bookbinders, 2009. 4to, (246x170mm), 85p. +11p adverts, colour and monochrome illustrations. A very good
copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains: Richard Aitken, Book of the dyeing (ledger conservation); Ian
Andrews, Pattern recognition (determining age via design); James Cassels, Recent binding; Stephen Conway, Recent binding;
Paul Delrue, Recent binding; Alan Fitch, Recent binding; Sayaka Fukuda, Japanese lacquered albums (their heritage problems
and repair); Sarah Jarrett-Kerr, Recent binding; Serena Kirkman, Recent binding; Dave Perry, It's a fine line (tooling
a la Cobden-Sanderson); Doug Rice, Master classes (binders from the Central School); Gene Riley, A tale of four halves (Mary
Cartwright, lady bookbinder); Bindy Wollen, Recent binding; together with all the winners from the SoB International
Competition. £17.00
21002
SOCIETY OF BOOKBINDERS. BOOKBINDER Volume 22. Journal of the Society of Bookbinders. Edited by Alan Fitch & Paul Gailiunas.
[London]: Society of Bookbinders, 2009. 4to, (246x170mm), 67p. + 14p adverts, colour and monochrome illustrations. A very
good copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains: Wesley Baker, Clamming up [the construction of a deluxe
solander box]; Glenn Bartley, Mel Jefferson: bookbiker: an interview; Paul Delrue, Recent binding; Derek Hood, Recent binding;
Alan Fitch, Jemima: a binding by Gavin Rookledge; Graham Moss, Ann Muir; David Penton, Easy on the Fevicol! Front-line binding
in India; Dominic Riley, Recent bindings; Sonja Schwall, Sorting the inside out; Alfred Shorter, Paper making and water paper
mills in England; and Cover story: an exhibition of bookbinding. £25.00
19116 SOCIETY OF BOOKBINDERS. BOOKBINDER Volume 24 Journal of the Society
of Bookbinders. Edited by Alan Fitch and Paul Gailiunas. [London]: Society of Bookbinders, 2010. 4to, (246x170mm), 77p.+ 11p.
adverts, colour and monochrome illustrations. A very good copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains: Kathy
Abbott, Binders' choice; Stuart Brockman, Collaboration (The binding of the Highgrove Florilegium); Chris Calver, Anthony
Gardner; Nick Cowlishaw, The Cambridge panel; Alan Fitch, Hebridean colours: an interview with Corinna Krause; Robert
Hamer, Jigs & theses; Gene Riley, Squaring the circle (emergency conservation in the field); Paul Smith, In the Gothic
mode The papier maché of Noel Humphries), and Recent bindings. £20.00
19180 SOCIETY OF BOOKBINDERS. BOOKBINDER Volume 25. Journal of the
Society of Bookbinders. Edited by Alan Fitch and Paul Gailiunas. [London]: Society of Bookbinders, 2011. 4to, (246x170mm),
85p.+ 11p. adverts, colour and monochrome illustrations. A very good copy in original colour-illustrated stiff wrappers. Contains:
Raymond Bonnett, Foxing (to bleach or not to bleach...); Lester Capon, High Church (extreme conservation in Ethiopia); Samantha
Elliot, The vanishing art of fore-edge painting; Alan Fitch, Forwarded by not finished: an interview with Julian Thomas; Arthur
Green, A springback stationery binding (a step-by-step tutorial); Arthur Green & Hannah Brown, SoB international competition
2011; Ann Tomolak, Preserving tomorrow's past (conserving Edgar Mansfield's work); and Recent Bindings.
£20.00
20269 SOCIETY
OF BOOKBINDERS. BOOKBINDER Volume 26 Journal of the Society of Bookbinders. Edited by Alan Fitch and Paul Gailiunas. [London]:
Society of Bookbinders, 2012. 4to, (246x170mm), 85p.+ 11p. adverts, colour and monochrome illustrations. A good copy in original
colouriillustrated stiff wrappers. Contains: Glenn Bartley &c, The Russian project; Antonio Velez Celemin, Choice a chameleon...
a journey into marbling; Cristina Balbiano d'Aramengo, The Lamellae binding; Alan Fitch, Forwarded, but not yet finished
#2 an interview with Alan Wood before and after Gregynog; Dominic Riley, Cloth re-backing; David Sellars, Mr Dickens'
Drood; Stuart Southall, 10+1 a collector's choice and Recent Bindings . £20.00
21427 SOCIETY OF BOOKBINDERS. BOOKBINDER Volume 27 Journal
of the Society of Bookbinders. Edited by Anne Roberts. [London]: Society of Bookbinders, 2013. 4to, (246x170mm), 69p.+ 11p.
adverts, colour and monochrome illustrations. A good copy in original colour illustrated stiff wrappers. (NEW BOOK) Contains:
Hannah Brown & Arthur Green, SoB international competition 2013; John Burton, Boxer rebellion; Sayaka Kukuda Japanese
papermaking in Kochi, Mark Harrison, Titling with gold leaf; Trevor Lloyd, In the round; Alex McGuckin, The anatomy of a book;
Anne Roberts, A time to print, a time to bind, an interview with Alan Fitch and Recent Bindings . £20.00
11967 SOCIETY OF BOOKBINDERS. CONTEMPORARY
BOOKBINDINGS FROM THE SOCIETY OF BOOKBINDERS. [Catalogue of an exhibition]. Bruxelles: Biblotheca Wittockiana, 1998. 4to,
(297x208mm), 24p. 80 colour illustrations of the bindings with detailed descriptive captions. A fine copy in original stiff
wrappers. Introduction by John Mitchell in English, French and Walloon. £15.00
17527 SOCIETY OF BOOKBINDERS. NEWSLETTER. A collection of
46 [of perhaps 47] issues. London: Society of Bookbinders, June 1993 - December 2008. 8vo, (210x147mm), approx. 24-36 pages
per issue. June 93 - Dec. 04 bound in four volumes in quarter leather with cloth sides, the other issues loose. A lengthy
run of this Newsletter which recounts the various meetings, events, conferences, &c, of the Society together with the
occasional technical article, obituaries of significant binders, &c. Appearing three time a year with the first number
appearing in October 1990, this run lacks an issue for December 2006 (but then so does by own run so maybe it never appeared).
This collection is however, more than merely a collection of the Newsletter for included are various A.L.s and T.L.s, notices
and other ephemera relating to the Society's activities as well as many issues of The Quarto: the Newsletter of the London
and South East Region of the Society. £40.00
19673 SOMMERLAD, M. J. SCOTTISH 'WHEEL' AND 'HERRING-BONE' BINDINGS in the Bodleian
Library. An illustrated handlist. Oxford: Oxford bibliographical Society, 1967. Sm.4to, (250x185mm), [4],16p. 28 illustrations.
Original wrappers, covers slightly creased. £10.00
19468 SOTHEBY (STANLEY COLLECTION) [AUCTION] CATALOGUE OF THE VALUABLE LIBRARY OF EDWARD JAMES
STANLEY... Second portion. London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, June, 1905 Sm.4to, (254x190mm), [2],131p. 1,503 lots, 15
chromolithographed plates. Original printed wrappers soiled and worn. Printed by J. Davy and Sons at the Dryden Press with
several ornamental headpieces and decorative vignettes that look like the work of the Byfields, and further enhanced with
magnificent embossed chromolithographs of bookbindings executed by William Griggs. Griggs (1832-1911), who was so noteworthy
for his pioneering work in the wide diffusion of colour printing that it led Martin Hardie to claim that, but for his 'brilliant
and painstaking work, chromolithography as a means of illustrating books would be almost a lost art, like that of coloured
aquatint.' £50.00
15559
STATIONERS' COMPANY. CRAFT LECTURES arranged by the Stationers' Company and Printing Industry Technical Board, held
at Stationers' Hall Session 1922-23 [to] ... 1927-28. Together 6 volumes in 4, London: printed by Students of the
London School of Printing, [1925-8.] 4to, (284x212mm), various paginations, plates. A bright and clean ex-library set, marred
only by a presentation label on the front free endleaves, in contemporary half calf, cloth sides, joints and corners a little
rubbed. An important series of lectures for trainees and apprentices in the books trades, included among the contents are:
Harold Curwen The printing art, E.J.W Zaehnsdorf Bookbinding, T.E. Naylor, Photo-mechanical typesetting, P.B. Melling
The evolution of lithography, S.C. Roberts Cambridge printing 1521-1924, Henry Lewis Bullen, Printing and civilization, George
W. Jones The craft of the printer, A.S. Colley Bookbinding, Michael Sadlier Book collecting, and James N. Green Music engraving
and printing. £65.00
18464
SUTTON, Angela BOOKBINDING IN PICTURES Malvern Wells: Pantothen Books, 2010 CD rom containing 163 'pages' and some
500 colour photographs with occasional line illustrations documentating and demonstrating each step in both new and repair
binding (NEW 'BOOK'). A CD Rom that provides a working guide to the processes used in bookbinding with the attraction
of numerous clear photographs of all the stages of work discussed; a lack of sufficient illustrations being a frequent complaint
with most manuals of bookbinding. The chapters on Book structure, Preparation for sewing, Sewing, Rounding and backing, Case-making;
Leather bindings, Endpapers, Attaching boards, Headbanding, Leather paring, Covering, Sidings, Putting down endpapers, Finishing,
Slipcase, and Loose-leaf binding will enable complete beginners to acquire the basic knowledge needed before moving on to
more advanced techniques while prospective book artists will see how a book should be properly constructed if it is to function
properly. Even more experienced binders can learn from Angela's techniques The contents of this CD is in pdf format and
thus any pages and be easily printed off as required. £18.00
2151 SZIRMAI, J.A. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDIAEVAL BOOKBINDING. New impression, Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2011. 4to, (145x189mm), xvi,352p. 114 photographic & 117 line illustrations. A fine copy in original black cloth,
gilt lettered. (NEW BOOK) A quite remarkable piece of historic and technical research which focuses on the physical aspects
of early bookbinding techniques from the early codex to the mediaeval period. The first part concentrates on the Mediterranean
heritage with chapters on single- and multi-section Coptic codices, late Coptic codices, the Ethiopian codex, Islamic
codex, and Byzantine codices. The second part, the mediaeval codex in the Western world, has chapters on Carolingian, Romanesque,
Gothic and Limp bindings. Each chapter examines - in considerable technical detail and supported by diagrammatic illustrations
and photographs - sewing methods, board attachment, endleaves, headbands, fastenings and furnishings, decoration, &c.
£99.95
19894 TIDCOMBE,
Marianne Editor. TWENTY-FIVE GOLD-TOOLED BOOKBINDINGS. An international tribute to Bernard Middleton's Recollections.
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1997. 4to, (255x190mm), 74p. 50 illustrations in colour & monochrome. A good copy in original
colour-illustrated paperback. £28.00
21133 TOWN, Laurence. BOOKBINDING BY HAND for students and craftsmen. Second edition, London: Faber and Faber,
1963. 8vo, (222x138mm), 297p. numerous line-drawn illustrations. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered, joints and edges slightly
rubbed; author's inscription dated August 1963 on the front flyleaf. A thoroughly revised edition of one of the best of
the modern generation of bookbinding manuals. £30.00
21134 VAUGHAN, Alex. J. MODERN BOOKBINDING. A treatise covering both letterpress and
stationery branches of the trade, with a section on finishing and design. Revised edition, London: Charles Skilton, 1960.
8vo, (222x143mm), viii,240p. +9p trade adverts, 31 plates & 121 text illustrations. Original brown cloth, gilt lettered,
slightly faded, dustjacket frayed.. Vaughan, who studied under Douglas Cockerell, deals in great detail with what used to
be called the letterpress and stationery branches of the trade and includes sections on finishing and design. Indeed Maureen
Duke writes elsewhere that the section on finishing in particular is so well-illustrated and laid out as to be the best from
which to learn this important facet of the craft, while his detailed descriptions of binding materials and technique also
provide invaluable insight for the conservation of both hand- and machine-bound books. £25.00
1531 WHETTON, Harry. PRACTICAL PRINTING AND BINDING. A complete
guide to the latest developments in all branches of the printer’s craft. London: Odhams, 1946. 8vo, (227x154mm), 448p.
8 colour plates & numerous monochrome illustrations. Original cloth, backstrip slightly faded. £5.00
21135 WOODCOCK, John. BINDING YOUR OWN
BOOKS. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, [1956.] Oblong sm.4to, (180x222mm), 26p. colour & monochrome illustrations. Original
illustrated wrappers, a little faded and soiled. (Rogerson, Noel Carrington and his Puffin Picture Books 104). Number 104
of Noel Carrington's Puffin Picture Books series. £12.00
8698 YOUNG, Laura A. BOOKBINDING & CONSERVATION BY HAND. A working guide, Second
edition, third impression with revisions by Jerilyn Glenn Davis. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2006. 4to, (252x170mm), xiv,273p.
168 illustrations from photographs & line drawings. A fine copy in original paperback (NEW BOOK). An excellent working
guide to hand bookbinding and restoration which covers general and specific techniques in great detail and, unusually, details
methods of constructing slipcases, chemises, and solander cases. £18.00
17484 ZAEHNSDORF, Joseph. THE ART OF BOOKBINDING. London: George Bell
& Sons, 1880. 8vo, (212x145mm) xxvi,187p. 10 photolithograph plates & 51 wood engravings in the text, outer edges
slightly dust-soiled. Original purple sand-grain cloth, lettered in gilt, covers slightly soiled, the backstrip faded and
corner tips rubbed. (Mejer 1054) The first edition of Zaehnsdorf's classic manual on binding technique. Originally written
for the growing band of late-Victorian amateur bookbinders this text enjoyed a considerable sale among professional trade
binders, so much so that their needs were recognized in the second edition of 1890, which contained additional material on
trade practices. £150.00
17110
ZAEHNSDORF, Joseph W. THE ART OF BOOKBINDING. A practical treatise. Third edition, London: George Bell, 1897. 8vo, (180x118mm),
xx,190 +4,32p publisher's adverts, 8 plates & 68 text illustrations. Original cloth, joints slightly rubbed. Zaehnsdorf's
great manual for bookbinders, which retains the preface from the second edition. He had originally written the book for use
by amateur binders but such was its success that the later editions contained more material and took greater account of the
needs of trade binders. £55.00
