Bookbinding: A Step-by-Step Guide

A smart first edition of this guide to bookbinding, signed and inscribed by the author. First edition. Author's presentation copy, signed with an inscription to the front endpaper that reads: "To Hamish with very best wishes." Hamish Riley-Smith is a UK based dealer, retailer and trader in rare books and manuscripts from the fifteenth to twentieth century. Illustrated throughout with numerous colour photographs and figures. A detailed guide to the history, tradition, and craft of bookbinding. With chapters on materials and tools, single-section bindings. multi-section bindings, containers, and more. Written by Kathy Abbott, a British bookbinder. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also excellent with minor sunning only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine.