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Recollections : my life in bookbinding

Title
Recollections : my life in bookbinding / Bernard C. Middleton ; with a foreword by Marianne Tidcombe.
Author
Middleton, Bernard C., 1924-2019.
Publication
Newtown, Pa. : Bird & Bull Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Morris, Henry, 1925-2019
  • Golgonooza Letter Foundry, compositor.
  • Campbell-Logan Bindery, binder.
  • Bird & Bull Press, publisher.
Description
105 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 26 cm
Summary
Autobiographical notes by one of the most famous bookbinders of our day. Includes numerous illustrations showing Middleton at different stages of his life and also includes a number of full color reproductions of Middleton bindings.
Subject
  • Middleton, Bernard C., 1924-2019
  • Bookbinders > England > Biography
Genre/Form
  • Autobiographies.
  • Biographies.
  • Memoirs.
  • Private press books – Pennsylvania – Newtown – 1995.
Note
  • "200 copies of this book have been printed on Arches mouldmade paper ... The book was composed in Dante types by Golgonooza Letter Foundry and bound by Campbell-Logan Bindery"--Colophon.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-105).
Binding (note)
  • Bound in publisher's quarter blue leather with decorative paper boards ; gilt stamped red leather label laid on spine ; issued blue and burgundy cloth slip case.
Call Number
Rare Books 20-484
OCLC
34073319
Author
Middleton, Bernard C., 1924-2019.
Title
Recollections : my life in bookbinding / Bernard C. Middleton ; with a foreword by Marianne Tidcombe.
Imprint
Newtown, Pa. : Bird & Bull Press, 1995.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-105).
Binding
Bound in publisher's quarter blue leather with decorative paper boards ; gilt stamped red leather label laid on spine ; issued blue and burgundy cloth slip case. NN
Local Note
Copy in Rare Books 20-484 is no. 179 of 200 copies.
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Added Author
Morris, Henry, 1925-2019, printer.
Golgonooza Letter Foundry, compositor.
Campbell-Logan Bindery, binder.
Bird & Bull Press, publisher.
Research Call Number
Rare Books 20-484
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