FOR THE LOVE OF THE BINDING. Studies in bookbinding history presented to Mirjam Foot.
Pp. xiv+378, 16 coloured plates at end, black & white frontispiece portrait and text illustrations, bibliography of the writings of Mirjam Foot, index; demy 4to; qr. navy cloth, light blue papered boards, blocked in red and lettered in gilt; minor production fault (a couple of leaves cropped); British Library/Oak Knoll Press, London & New Castle, 2000. First edition. *Includes chapters on Venetian bookbindings in the British Library; some unrecorded sixteenth-century French bookbindings; fore-edge paintings in the Dutch Royal Library. Contributors include Nicolas Barker, Robin Myers, Marianne Tidcombe, a.o. Item #102293
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