The Care of Books. An Essay on the Development of Libraries and their Fittings, from the earliest times to the end of the Eighteenth Century

by John Willis Clark

$300 · Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Cambridge: University Press, 1901. 8vo 26 x 17.5 inches . Profusely illustrated. Blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. A few trifling marks to covers. Item #410859 Edith Diehl's copy, with her morocco book label. A fine association copy: Edith Diehl 1876-1953 was an American bookbinder and author of 'Bookbinding, its Background and Technique' Rinehart and Co., 1946 , the classic text and manual on the history and craft

• Binding: Leather

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.