John Paas & James Cook: provincial bookbinding in the Eighteen Thirties

by Frances Docker

$250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Loughborough, Leicestershire: Plough Press, 1979. Edition limited to 25 copies this, no. 18 , 8vo, pp. 25, 7 ; 10 plates plus other illustrations; original quarter purple morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine; fine. Recounting the murder of the binding tool producer, John Pass by the bookbinder, James Cook in 1830, and the sudden publicity which suddenly illuminated an obscure craftsman and his trade. There was also a regular

• Binding: Leather

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