Hardback, original cloth. 22 x 14.5cm. 111pp. Introduction by Paul S. Koda, followed by a facsimile reprint of the original 1850 edition. A few spots to end-papers, otherwise very good.

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Title

The Art of Book-Binding: Its Rise and Progress : Including a Descriptive Account of the New York Book-Bindery (The Oak Knoll series on the history of the book)

Publisher

Oak Knoll Press,US

Publication Date

1984

Language

English

ISBN 10

0938768077

ISBN 13

9780938768074

Binding

Hard Cover

Condition

Very Good

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Printing, Bibliography, Bookbinding & Publishing

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Edward Walker was the proprietor of the largest bookbinding establishment in New York City in the middle of the nineteenth century. This book describes the workings of the Walker bindery, explaining how books were bound and how the bindery was organized. Originally published in 1850, this is the first book written by an American on the subject of bookbinding

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www.besleysbooks.com info@besleysbooks.com Proprietor Stephen Besley. Besleys Books has traded in Norfolk and Suffolk since 1986. We now no longer have an open shop, but we issue catalogues and exhibit at book-fairs. We provide valuations for insurance and probate. We continually need to buy books, both important items and more general stock for shop and catalogues. We are members of the PFBA.

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