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English Restoration Bookbindings – Samuel Mearne and his contemporaries
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Author: NIXON, Howard
Published by: The British Library (London, 1974)
8vo, half-title, coloured frontis, title, 48p, plates, 126 numbered monochrome photographic plates. Orange cloth decorated and lettered in gilt to board and spine. Glassine wrapper, as published.
An authoritative review of late 17th Century English binding. Fine.
Cat. ref.: 151
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