The bookbinding trades journal / issued by the Bookbinders and Machine Rulers' Consolidated Union [complete and consecutively bound]

Very good copy in half modern calf over aged marbled boards, with marbled edges and a gilt-tooled leather label to spine. Panel edges are somewhat worn with peripheral surface loss; some rubbing to spine bands. Some isolated, sporadic foxing internally, though the text block is overall tight, bright, and clean. . The publisher's marbling specimens by Halfer are bound-in and well-preserved. Physical description; complete 2 volumes in 1 (vii, 387; 256 pages) : illustrations ; 21 cm. Notes; Vol. 1, no. 1 (1904)-v. 2, no. 16 (Jul. 1914). Includes articles on bookbinding history, design and technique; trade union news, etc. Index to volume 1: pages 385-387. In 1911 the Bookbinders and Machine Rulers' Consolidated Union was incorporated in the National Union of Bookbinders and Machine Rulers, who issued the journal from v. 2, no. 5 (1911) until its apparently final issue in July 1914. Subjects; Bookbinding -- History -- England -- Periodicals. Bookbinding -- History -- Ireland -- Periodicals. Bookbinders and Machine Rulers' Consolidated Union. Labor unions -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Periodicals. 1 Kg. …