Shrewsbury School Library Bindings. Catalogue Raisonné.

by J. Basil Oldham by Bookbinding

$1,250 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Colored frontis. & 62 fine plates. Folio, orig. cloth covers a little spotted , spine gilt. Shrewsbury: Printed for the Library of the Shrewsbury School at the University Press, Oxford, 1943.Limited to 200 numbered copies. A nice copy of this important and handsome book. The bindings are largely English, though there are a few notable French and Italian examples. Scarce. Breslauer, The Uses of Bookbinding Literature, p. 24­ a remarkable

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