A Manual Of The Art Of Bookbinding Containing Full Instructions In The Different Branches Of

by James B Nicholson

$600 · Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

First edition

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1856. First edition of the first American bookbinding manual. 8vo 18.6 x 12.5 cm . 318, 1, 18 ads pages. 12 plates, including frontispiece some offsetting , six of seven original marbled paper specimens. Original black blind-blocked cloth, gilt-lettered on spine rebacked preserving the original spine panel, restored by Laura S. Young . In a cloth folding case. Provenance: William H.

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