Alan Isaac Rare Books

Introducing Bookbinding

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Author: ROBINSON, Ivor

Published by: B. T. Batsford, London & Watson-Guptill, New York. 1968 FIRST EDITION

This is a pioneering work which combines knowledgeable text with high quality sequential images which provide a valuable learning aid for the beginner and improver binder.  It shows the student multi-section binding and on through quarter leather work, including gold finishing.

210 x 210mm, 112p. Monochrome photographs through-out. Plain end-leaves. Brown paper covered boards with gilt lettering to spine.  Colour printed and illustrated d/w, lettered in brown and black to front and spine.

A clean and crisp copy without marks of past ownership.  The front flap of the d/w has one corner clipped, although this was not that which held the price.  A NEAR FINE COPY.

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