French Bookbinders 1789-1848.
by RAMSDEN (Charles)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Grantham, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Printed for the Author by Lund Humphries & Co. Ltd., 1950. First Edition, 4to, xiv,228pp., frontis., 40 plates, orig. buckram, t.e.g. a fine copy. This book consists of an alphabetical list of about 1,500 French binders who were at work during the period, precede by a dozen pages of introductory matter and illustrated by 40 collotype plates. In his choice of plates Mr Ramsden has avoided examples by binders already well illustrated elsewhere and concentrated on less-known craftsmen or the less-known aspect of the great masters.
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- Bookseller
- Forest Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38473
- Title
- French Bookbinders 1789-1848.
- Author
- RAMSDEN (Charles)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Printed for the Author by Lund Humphries & Co. Ltd., 1950
- Bookseller catalogs
- BOOKBINDING;
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...