[Rarebooks] FS: Bookbinding manuals including Zaehnsdorf

[Nina W. Matheson]

Friends and colleagues,
    I am pleased to offer as a lot:

Zaehnsdorf, Joseph W. The art of bookbinding. London, George Bell & 
Sons, 1880. Original maroon cloth. Ownership signature, place, and 
date at the top right corner of the title-page. Hinges repaired, 
otherwise very good. First edition. 10 numbered photo-lithographs of 
bindings, p lus illustrations in the text. 187 pp.
Smith, F. R. Bookbinding. New York, Chicago, Pitman Publishing 
Corporation [n.d.]. Original tan cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket with 
short closed tears. Pitman's Craft for All series. 113 pp. 32 
numbered plates. 3 copies
Lewis, A. W. Basic bookbinding. New York, Dover Publications, Inc. 
[1957]. Original laminated printed wrappers. Lamination lifting in 
several places, otherwise near fine. 144 pp. 127 numbered figures. An 
unabridged republication of the book first published by B. T. 
Batsford Ltd. in 1952, with additional notes for American users.
Pratt, Guy A. Let's bind a book. New York, Milwaukee, Chicago, The 
Bruce Publishing Company [1944]. Original dark green cloth. Fine in 
unevenly faded dust jacket. Second printing, revised. 147 pp. 122 
numbered illustrations.
Cockerell, Douglas. Bookbinding, and the care of books, a text-book 
for bookbinders and librarians. By Douglas Cockerell with drawings by 
Noel Rooke. Fourth edition. London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd 
[1924]. Quarter tan buckram with green paper boards. Boards lightly 
rubbed at the edges, back board slightly soiled, otherwise a near 
fine, sound copy. 350pp. Fourth edition reprinted. Seven half-tone 
plates. Small bookstore label on front pastedown. The Artistic Crafts 
Series of Technical Handbooks.
Cockerell, Sydney M. The repairing of books. London, Sheppard Press 
[1958]. Original black cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated 
by Joan Rix Tebbutt. 110 pp. First edition.
Percival, G. S. Repairing books. [Leicester, Dryad Handicrafts, 
n.d.]. Original white self-wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled, 
otherwise fine. Cover-title. Dryad leaflet no. 150. 15 pp. 14 
numbered illustrations.

9 vols.  The lot $ 200 net + postage


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