A collection of facsimiles from examples of historic or artistic book-binding, illustrating the history of binding as a branch of the decorative arts.
Publisher: B. Quaritch
Published: 1889
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Bookbinding -- Facsimiles
Notes: Issued in 11 pt., with cover-title: "Bernard Quaritch's facsimiles of choice examples of historical & artistic book-binding and of specimens of book-illumination, sec. XV, XVI, XVII." The 8 specimens of book illumination are not included in the volume issue. Uniform with his catalogue of bindings 1889 (Suppl. I to his General catalogue 1887)