Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.

"Describes and illustrates 315 bookbinder's tickets, stamps, and engraved designations, from the 1750s through 1876. Identifies 233 binders from 19 states and 8

This is an expanded version of Andrea Krupp's article & includes a full catalogue of bookcloth grains with illustrations in a large format & in colour. The essa

On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those boun

"This second printing of David Pearson's English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800 includes a new introduction and a number of additional references and relevant poi