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Condition: As new. First edition of 1500 copies. First edition of 1500 copies. 8vo. xvi, 143p. Illustrated, including 66 actual tipped-in samples. Bound in gilt-titled red ribbed cloth over beveled boards, t.e.g., and housed in a cloth slipcase.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. 4to. Illustrated, with a color frontispiece and reproductions of early bookcloth sample books. Each copy has 66 original samples of victorian bookcloth tipped-in, 30 of designs and 36 of qualities. The samples are a generous 1-1/2 x 3', though a few of the scarcer types are half size. The edition is bound in deep red T grain Victorian Bookcloth (and is probably the last trade edition to be so bound); protected by a deep red slipcase. Limitation of 1500 copies, owing to the supply of cloth available for samples. Tomlinson's long-awaited work on bookcloth documents the early use & manufacture of bookcloth; Winterbottom's dominance of the trade; production methods and costs; and very importantly, the identification of qualities and designs. A fine, as new copy in slipcase.