Only in cloth. An Exhibition from the Collection of Calvin P. Otto on Display in the Rotunda of the University of Virginia...1997

by bookbinding catalogue

$25 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

Charlottesville: Books Rats Press, 1998. Small 8vo, 48pp, illustrated and with an actual sample of red cloth. Original brown wrappers, white printed paper label on upper cover. As new. § An Exhibition from the Collection of Calvin P. Otto on Display in the Rotunda of the University of Virginia. Near fine. Most of the design effort for the exteriors of trade books now goes into dust jackets or wrappers, but in the 19th century publisher's cloth was a new

• Binding: Wrappers

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.