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The Restoration of Leather Bindings.  A Classic Work by Bernard  C. 
Middleton.  Drawings by Aldren A. Watson and Seymour Fleishman.   Co-published by Oak 
Knoll Press, New Castle, DE and The British Library, London,  1998.  Third, 
revised and expanded edition.  4to, pp. (v-xv)  304.  Full-bound chocolate-brown 
boards/endpapers, gold-stamped spine,  raised bands.  Frontis.  116 
illustrations.  Index.   Pictorial dust jacket mylar protected.  As New condition.   
$75.00
 
This celebrated book is a classic on the fine art and craf of restoring  fine 
leather bookbinding.  Middleton is one of Britain's pre-eminent  
practitioners and scholars on the subject.  He writes with he rare insight  of long 
pratice and hard-won authority.  Nowhere else can a student of this  craft find 
clearer or more detailed explanations of the restorer's lor and  science.  This 
definitive work belongs on the shelf of every bibliophile,  librarian, 
conservator, book restorer, and binder interested in this unique art  form.
 
A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique.  By Bernard C.  Middleton.  
Foreword by Howard M. Nixon, Librarian, Westminster  Abbey.  London, The 
Holland Press, 1978.  Second Supplemented  Edition.  Sm 4to, pp. (v-xiv) 326 + 11 
Plates.  Full-bound maroon  boards, gold-stamped spine.  Frontis:  some 
popular kinds of  decorated papers used in England during the 17th, 18th, & 19th 
centuries  (color).  Illustrated.  Appendices.  Index.  As New  condition.  $50.00
 
Five Centuries of English Bookbinding.  By Howard M. Nixon.   London:  Scolar 
Press, 1978.  First edition.  Sm 4to, pp. 232 +  Index.  Full-bound grey 
boards, gold-stamped chocolate-brown spine  label.  100 illustrations.  
Bibliography on books and articles on  English bookbinding.  Cinnamon-brown dust jacket 
with red & black  lettering, mylar protected.  As New condition.  $75.00
 
Howard M. Nixon, Librarian of Westminster Abbey, is the leading authority  on 
the history of English bookbinding.  For the last twenty-five years the  
'English Bookbindings' series which Howard Nixon has been contributing to  The 
Book Collector has been one of the most highly-regarded features of  that 
journal.  With the issue of Spring 1977 the series reached its  hundredth article, 
and the hundred pieces have been collected in this book,  which provide the most 
authoritative concise guide to the history of bookbinding  in this country 
which has been published.  he one hundred bindings are  illustrated and 
discussed in chronological progression from the fifteenth  century to the twentieth, 
and the text has been revised and expanded where  necessary to take into 
account the most recent scholarship on teh subject.   The articles are supplemented 
by a short introduction and a bibliography.
 
The three principles which Mr. Nixon followed for the Book  Collector 
series--to include only bindings which had not previously been  published in book 
form, to cover in depth all periods of English bookbinding and  'to endeavour to 
publish at least one new fact with every binding'--combine in  this collection 
to make a contribution to the study of bookbinding worthy to be  set 
alongside the most important work of G. D. Hobson, E. P. Goldschmidt and J.  B. Oldham.
 
The Book:  Its Printers, Illustrators, and Binders from Gutenberg to  the 
Present Time.  By Henri Bouchot, of the National Library, Paris.   With a 
Treatise on the Art of Collecting and Describing Early Printed Books, and  a 
Latin-English and English-Latin Topographical Inde of the Earliest Printing  Places.  
Edited by H. Grevel.  Containing One Hundred and Seventy-Two  Fac-similes of 
Early Typography, Book-Illustrations, Printers' Marks, Bindings,  Numerous 
Borders, Initials, Head and Tail Pieces, and a Frontispiece.   London:  H. Grevel 
& Co., 1890.  Sm 4to, pp. (vi-xv )383.   Full-bound creme gilt pictorial 
cloth, teg.  Partially unopened.   Spine rebacked with black buckram, rebound 
pastedowns/endpapers.   Tight, intact, text-block clean.  Moderate shelfwear.  P. 
ix two  1 1/2" closed tears, p. xi two edge nicks & one 1 1/2" closed  tear, p. 
98 two 1/2" glue residue.  Very Good condition.   $100.00
 
   

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