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An historical sketch of bookbinding / by S. T. Prideaux ; with a chapter on early stamped bindings by E. Gordon Duff.

Prideaux, S. T. (Sarah Treverbian), author.; Duff, E. Gordon (Edward Gordon), 1863-1924.
1893
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Title
An historical sketch of bookbinding / by S. T. Prideaux ; with a chapter on early stamped bindings by E. Gordon Duff.
Created/published
London : Lawrence & Bullen, 1893.
Description
vi, 303 p. ; 20 cm
Associated name
Prideaux, S. T. (Sarah Treverbian), author.
Duff, E. Gordon (Edward Gordon), 1863-1924.
Note
An enlarged reprint" of the "Introduction to the Catalogue of the exhibition of bindings, held at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, in ... 1891. The articles "Embroidered book-covers", "The use of metal in bound books" and "Book-edge decoration", appeared first in the Magazine of art, v.13-15.

Includes index.
Bibliography, etc.
Bibliography: p. [251]-294.
Contents
Historical sketch of bookbinding
Table of contemporaneous sovereigns in France and England
Technical terms in ordinary use
Embroidered book-covers
The use of metal in bound books
Book-edge decoration
Early documents relating to the craft.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
Z269 .P8

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