ENGLISH RESTORATION BOOKBINDINGS, SAMUEL MEARNE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
Nixon, Howard M.
Published by The British Library, London, 1974
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small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 48 pages and 1 full-page color plate. S-K 4775. First edition but with only one illustration. (Brenni 853). An unusual exhibition catalogue with a long running essay supplemented by specific exhibit entries described in the margins of the text. 126 items are thus described. Seller Inventory # 5860
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Title: ENGLISH RESTORATION BOOKBINDINGS, SAMUEL ...
Publisher: The British Library, London
Publication Date: 1974
Binding: stiff paper wrappers
Illustrator: Bookbinding
Edition: 1st Edition
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English Restoration bookbindings: Samuel Mearne and his contemporaries
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Published for the British Library Board by British Museum Publications Ltd, 1974
ISBN 10: 0714103616
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Mearne, Samuel (illustrator). 1st Edition. London: British Museum, 1974. 8vo. Stiff wrappers, 148 pp. Color frontispiece. Minor defects, no name inside, hinges sound. Very good. Seller Inventory # 020413
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English restoration Bookbindings. Samuel Mearne and his contemporaries
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Condition: Good. Foxed on top cut. Seller Inventory # 240101
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English Restoration bookbindings: Samuel Mearne and his contemporaries.
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8vo, 48 pages, colour plate, 25 cm, Published for the British Library Board by British Museum Publications Ltd., 1974., 1974
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Pictorial covers titled in black. A fine copy. The catalogue of an exhibition held in the King's Library of the British Museum, May-September 1974. Seller Inventory # 17002
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English Restoration Bookbindings, Samuel Mearne and His Contemporaries
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British Museum Publications, London, 1974
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 48, 1 colour plate, catalogue of 126 bindingsa c. 1660 to 1700, some foxing of foredge margins. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book. Seller Inventory # 004518
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English Restoration Bookbindings: Samuel Mearne and His Contemporaries
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Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: 0714103624. 48 pp. color frontispiece plus 126 full-page black-and-white plates; 8vo, reddish-brown cloth, gilt decoration and title on cover. With the book label (designed by Leo Wyatt) of Kenneth Rapoport, a physician, noted bibliophile and collector of early printed books, including Shakespeare, Molière, and Cervantes. Fine copy. Seller Inventory # 5560
English Restoration Bookbindings: Samuel Mearne and His Contemporaries
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British Museum Publications Limited, London, 1974
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Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this vastly illustrated work on English Restoration bookbinding. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and one hundred and twenty-five plates. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive history of English Restoration bookbinding, with reference to Samuel Mearne, an English Restoration bookbinder, referred to by historians as the Queens' Binder, and publisher whose work is considered a high point of pre-industrial bookbinding. As well as commentary on his contemporaries. Written by Howard Millar Nixon, a British librarian at the British Museum then Librarian of Westminster Abbey and historian of bookbinding. From the library of Christopher Foyle, a British philanthropist and the chairman of the famous Foyle's Bookshop in London. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Fine. book. Seller Inventory # 911T86
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English Restoration Bookbindings: Samuel Mearne and his contemporaries
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The British Library Board, 1974
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. There is gilt on the spine and the front of the book. Frontispiece in color. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. Now protected with a plastic covering. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Seller Inventory # 6qkjf
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English restoration bookbindings. Samuel Mearne and his contemporaries
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Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. NIXON (Howard M.). - English restoration bookbindings. Samuel Mearne and his contemporaries. - [Londres], British Museum Publications, 1974. - In-8° de 48 pp., 126 pl. h. t. - Rel. d'éd., toile rouge. - Catalogue de l'exposition consacrée à "l'âge d'or de la reliure anglaise", dans les quarante dernières années du XVIIe siècle, et principalement à Samuel Mearne, à l'occasion du 350e anniversaire de sa naissance. 126 reliures sont décrites et représentées. Seller Inventory # 3545-3673
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English Restoration Bookbindings; Samuel Mearne and his contemporaries
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Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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Hardcover. color frontis., b&w photos (illustrator). 1st edition. pp. 48, plates. 4to. Board edges very slightly rubbed & slight general soiling; else near fine. With 126 b&w photo plates on glossy paper. Published as a catalog of an exhibition held at the British Museum, London. Seller Inventory # 9900028747
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English Restoration bookbindings : Samuel Mearne and his contemporaries
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London : Published for the British Library Board by British Museum Publications Ltd, 1974
ISBN 10: 0714103624
ISBN 13: 9780714103624
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Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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First Edition. Case-bound illustrated edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 48 p., 126 p. of plates ; 26 cm. Subjects: Mearne, Samuel 1624-1683 ; Exhibitions. Bookbinding England ; Exhibitions. Books History ; Exhibitions. Genre: History. Language: English. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 369199