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Pearson, David
FOR THE LOVE OF THE BINDING: STUDIES IN HISTORICAL BOOKBINDING PRESENTED TO MIRJAM FOOT.
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New Castle, Delaware, Oak Knoll Press, 2000, cloth, clear plastic dust jacket
First edition, Fine
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Twenty-six of the world's most prestigious bookbinding experts have contributed essays reflecting Mirjam Foot's own research interests, particularly the placement of bindings in their historical context. Among the essays included are: "The Mysterious Mr. de Sauty" by Marianne Tidcombe; "Some unrecorded sixteenth-century French bookbindings" by Nicolas Barker; "Ticketed Bindings - a hundred years of European bookbinding" by Nicholas Pickwoad; "The Keatley Trust Collection of modern British bindings" by Dorothy A. Harrop; "John Wittaker's edition of the Magna Carta, its printing, and his bindings on the Wormsley copies" by Bryan Maggs. Other authors include Anthony Hobson, Lotte Hellinga, David Pearson, Robin Myers, and more.
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2000; small 4to., cloth, clear plastic dust jacket; 392 pages with 220 black and white illustrations. ISBN 9781584560357. Book # 60869
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