The British Bookmaker: A Journal for The Book Printer - The Book Illustrator; The Book Cover Designer - The Book Binder; Librarians, and Lovers of Books Generally. Volume IV (1890-1891)

Small 4to, iv + pp484 split into monthly sections of 40 pages (44 pages in first part) profusely illustrated in duo-tone, b/w & colour and 3 chromolithographic plates. Hardcover no dust jacket. Bound in half green morocco over marbled paper covered boards in good+ condition with a little rubbing to side of spine and edges. Inside a faint aroma of smoke, otherwise all pages in clean and bright condition with the very occasional spot of foxing. This publication was called "the Bookbinder" from 1887-1890, (the first 3 volumes), with this first edition the first to become "The British Bookmaker" in 1891. A very nice copy.