The Whole art of bookbinding.
By: [both] reprinted from the original editions, with a foreword by Bernard C. Middleton and twelve specimens of marbled paper and notes by Richard J. Wolfe.
Contributors: Middleton, Bernard C., 1924-; Wolfe, Richard J.; Parry, Henry, 18th/19th cent.; Sinclair, Hugh, 18th/19th cent.
Publisher: W. Thomas Taylor
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
Subjects: Bookbinding -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Marbling (Bookbinding) -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Marbled papers.
Other titles: Whole process of marbling paper.; First English bookbinding & marbling manuals.; First English bookbinding and marbling manuals.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
The first work is a reprint of the earliest English bookbinding manual (Oswestry : Printed and sold for the author by N. Minshall, 1811). Its author may be Henry Parry. The second work is a reprint of the first English paper-marbling manual. Though its t.p. gives no author or imprint information, the work is by Hugh Sinclair and was printed about 1815 by T. Duncan, Glasgow. Facsimiles of the title pages of both works are included.
Half title: The first English bookbinding & marbling manuals.
"Five hundred copies ... printed ... [from] types composed at the Stinehour Press. Thirty-five copies are printed on Frankfurt Cream and are specially bound; the balance are printed on Mohawk Superfine"--Colophon.