Item #163320 BOOKBINDINGS & OTHER BIBLIOPHILY: Essays in honour of Anthony Hobson. Anthony Hobson, Dennis E. Rhodes.

BOOKBINDINGS & OTHER BIBLIOPHILY: Essays in honour of Anthony Hobson.

Foreword by Frederick B. Adams. Pp. 366(last colophon), frontispiece portrait, numerous text illustrations (many full page), bibliography of A. R. A. Hobson; med. 8vo; patterned brown cloth, spine lettered in black; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed and split; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, a little marginal pencilling; Edizioni Valdonega, Verona, n.d.[1994]. First edition. *With publisher's prospectus loosely inserted. A festschrift for auctioneer and bookbinding historian Anthony Hobson (1921-2014), who joined Sotheby's in 1947. Essays range from 'great collectors, Grolier, Mahieu, Anne de Montmorency, to the technique of bookbinding and the book trade, from Peter Schoeffer at Mainz to 18th-century French bookbinding and Dutch bookbinding up to 1800. In geographical scope, there are essays on Ethiopic bookbinding, the Visconti Library at Milan, and book-collectors from Britain in Italy' [prospectus blurb]. Item #163320

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