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

Title: An historical sketch of bookbinding / by S. T. Prideaux. With a chapter on early stamped bindings ; by E. Gordon Duff.
Author: Prideaux, S. T. (Sarah Treverbian)
Publication: London : Lawrence & Bullen, 1893.

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vi, 303 p. : front.; 20 cm.

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"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.

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Bibliography: p. [251]-294.

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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.--Bibliography of works relating to binding.--Index.

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^^^02021838^

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966338

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