Bookbinding in America 1680-1910 by MASER, Frederick E

Pennsylvania: Bryn Mawr Coolege Library, 1983. An 'Aligator' Binding on a Book about A World Famous Collection of Bookbindings

MASER, Frederick E. Bookbinding in America 1680-1910. From the collection of Frederick E. Maser. With an essay by Willman Spawn. Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: Brtyn Mawr College Library, 1983.

First edition. Large quarto (11 x 8 1/4 inches; 280 x 210 mm.). 122, [1, colophon], [1, blank] pp. Six full color plates (including frontispiece) and numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text.

Full brown levant morocco, both covers with a large onlaid piece of dark brown alligator skin, smooth spine with onlaid black calf label lettered in gilt, woven endpapers. Housed in a brown morocco backed red cloth clamshell case, spine with onlaid black calf label lettered in gilt.

Although the binding is unsigned it was certainly done by a skilled student of the art of bookbinding.

A perfect gift for a student of bookbinding.

"The occasion of this study is the gift to the Bryn Mawr College Library of the Frederick E. Maser Collection of American bookbindings. Their place in the Library's collections and their significance for the study of this art will be the subject of the pages which follow. Our indebtedness to Dr and Mrs Masser extends well beyond the books themselves. Most important is their concern that their treasures be placed where students and other scholars can readily profit by their availability. James Tannis. Director of Libraries" (Foreword).