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

by James B Nicholson

$1,000 · 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, seven original marbled paper specimens some offsetting , illustrations in text. Text block cracked at p. 206, some occasional soiling and spotting, specimen leaves standing out a bit from text block. Original black blind-blocked cloth, gilt-lettered

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