The Business of Bookbinding

Alex J. Philip
London: Stanley Paul & Co, 1912.
First Edition.

18.5cm x 12.5cm. viii, 224 pages, [16], 48 advertisements, 12 plates, 4 folding plates with 53 samples of cloth and leather. Red cloth, gilt lettering.

Bookbinding from the point of view of the binder, the publisher, the librarian and the general reader; with chapters on the manufacture of binders’ leather and cloth, and a description of a working bindery, together with a glossary of terms used in leather and cloth manufacture and bookbinding. Includes samples of leather and cloth supplied by Edwd. & Jas. Richardson and The Winterbottom Book Cloth Co. The Series of Library Technical Manuals, No. 2.

Appropriately rebound in plain red cloth. Occassional foxing. Some offsetting on the sample sheets as usual. Very Good Condition.

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