Bookbinding

by Tamalpais Press, Keepsake Roxburghe, Zamorano Clubs

$45 · Offered by Michael Pyron Books · No longer available

Berkeley, CA: Tamalpais Press, 1962. Unbound. Very Good+ binding. Item #9929 Bifolium, 8-1/2 x 4-1/2. Limited edition, one of 100 copies. Trivial edgewear and quite minor toning. A nearly fine copy. A wonderful excerpt from Head's Proteus Redivivus, or the Art of Wheedling 1679 in which Head describes the increasingly lucrative business of bookbinding and how its craftsmen slowly yielded to the wealth and

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