English binding before 1500

by G. D Hobson

$450 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

Cambridge: at the University Press, 1929. First edition, 1 of 500 copies, folio, pp. 12 , 58, 2 ; 55 plates; original turquoise cloth, spine lettered in gilt; light wear to binding, else very good. From the author in blue ink on the half-title. The Sandars Lectures 1927. The history of English book bindings categorized in two periods, the early bindings before 1300 and the Gothic bindings c. 1450-1500 , and several useful appendices. Item #19970

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