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The Zaehnsdorfs (1842 – 1947)

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Author: BROMMHEAD, Frank

Full title: The Zaehnsdorfs (1842 – 1947) – Craft Bookbinders

Published by: Private Libraries Association (London, 1986)

8vo,109p. Illust., over 30 plates.  Bound in plumb coloured cloth, gilt lettered in gilt to black ground.

The standard work on the family West End London bookbinders.  Fine.

Cat. ref. 144

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