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Scottish’Wheel’ and ‘Herring-bone’ Bindings in the Bodleian Library.
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Author: SOMMERLAND, M.J.
Published by: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1967.
250 x 190mm, frontis, title, 10p text. Handlist of 28 bindings, all illustrated on 4 leaves. Red card cover, lettered in black. Single section binding with stapled fixing. Bookplate of David Mackenzie to the verso of the front cover. Removable white plastic spine slide.
A good clean copy of this quite rare title – it being ‘Occasional Publication no.1’ of the Oxford Society.
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