Pp.111; various illustrations & woodcut facsimiles; fine in original cloth. Incorporates a photo-facsimile of Walker's original 64pp. manual together with his 4pp. poetical advertisement (c.1880) for The Great New-York Book-Bindery. Book Arts Binding American BOOKBINDING.

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Title: The Art of Book-binding, its Rise and Progress; Including a Descriptive Account of the New York Book-Bindery. New York, 1850. [Facsimile reprint] edited with an introduction by Paul S. Korda.
Publisher: Oak Knoll Books, New Castle, [Delaware]
Publication Date: 1984
Binding: Hardcover

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Established 1975 in a Suffolk farmhouse, we now have five book rooms & a gallery at the old White Hart in the centre of Saxmundham, near Aldeburgh in Suffolk. Visitors are welcome but we open by appointment only except on Book & Artisan Market Saturdays (the second Saturday each month from Easter to Christmas) when the book rooms are open to all from 10am to 1pm. We also issue printed catalogues & regular email lists of new acquisitions, specialising in Printing & the Art of the Book, Wood-engraving, Bookplates, & General Antiquarian.

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Claude Cox Old & Rare Books ABA, ILAB
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