A MANUAL OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING: FULL INSTRUCTIONS IN THE DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF FORWARDING, GILDING, AND FINISHING. ALSO, THE ART OF MARBLING BOOK-EDGES AND PAPER.
by NICHOLSON, JAMES B
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- General Cover Wear./No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1856. Rear board detached. Top 1/3 of rear cover water-stained with very light staining at top of last few pages only.Spine chipped at top. Gilt lettering remains bright. Original yellow endpapers. Rear flyleaf missing. Evidence of paper removal from front flyleaf, likely a dealer's catalogue entry for the book. Foxing of preliminary page front and back, text block clean. Fore-edge bumped mid-portion from p.142-158 without paper loss. Twelve full-page illustrations, line drawings in the text, and seven examples of marbled paper. The marbled papers have off-setting on the adjacent page. 318pp. + a 20-page catalogue at the end. This volume is considered to be the first American book on bookbinding. A bit compromised, worthy of repair, and priced accordingly. (See photos). . First Edition. Brown Embossed Cloth. General Cover Wear./No Jacket. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012914
- Title
- A MANUAL OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING: FULL INSTRUCTIONS IN THE DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF FORWARDING, GILDING, AND FINISHING. ALSO, THE ART OF MARBLING BOOK-EDGES AND PAPER.
- Author
- NICHOLSON, JAMES B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - General Cover Wear.
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Henry Carey Baird
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1856
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Bookbinding, Marbling Paper, History of Bookbinding
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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