The Book: Its Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, from Gutenberg to the Pr esent Time
Scribner and Welford, January 1890. First Edition. Leather Binding. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Good / No Jacket. Item #L012224
ISBN: B003G8MZ1K
Attractively bound in 3/4 dark blue morocco over matching marbled boards by Adams, gilt-stamped spine with raised bands, matching marbled endpapers, top edge gilt (front cover detached but present; spine titling a bit dull; light wear chiefly to edges; slight interior browning). A good copy of a well-illustrated issue of a classic bibliophilic tome). xv+[1]+383+plates. Expanded edition of the English translation by E.C. Bigmore of Bouchot's 'Le Livre'; edited, with a preface, by H. Grevel. Printed in Great Britain. 172 b/w facsims.
Price: $35.00