CHIVERS BINDING - GRENFELL, William, & Arthur Capel Molyneux Croome.

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Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools. First edition, deluxe issue in a fine binding by the workshop of Cedric Chivers in its "vellucent" style. This meticulous chronicle records detailed results and commentary and includes biographical sketches and photographs of notable players.Cedric Chivers (1853-1929), one of the most successful bookbinders of his time, developed a new technique for binding books in the 1890s. His elaborate cover designs were painted on paper and then covered by vellum, which had been treated to become translucent.

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