Fine Old Bindings, with other Interesting Miscellanea in Edward Almack’s Library.

by Edward Almack by Bookbinding

$500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Signed

Frontis., numerous facsimiles & 53 plates some colored of bindings and MSS. Large folio, orig. half-cream & red cloth joints worn , upper cover & spine gilt, t.e.g. London: Blades, East & Blades, 1913. Limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by the publishers. Almack’s library was particularly rich in 17th-century English books and MSS., with many splendid Samuel Mearne bindings. Some of the colored illustrations are heightened in gold.

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