(Tokyo): Kyoiku Shoseki, (1991), First English Language Edition. folio, cloth in dust jacket. (200)pp. Kyoiku Shoseki, This catalogue covers the years from 1980 - 1990 and contains 169 fine bindings, 27 designs for commercial book production as well as posters and announcements. Illustrated with 300 color plates. "Although bookbinding may... More about A Master's Bibliophile Bindings. Tini Miura 1980-1990

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1928, quarto, grey cloth over bevelled boards in dust jacket. (vi), 369, illustrated including a color frontispiece; viii, 110 plates. Ernest Benn Limited, With indexes: 1. Binders' and booksellers names -- 2. Monastic binderies -- 3. Ciphers and initials -- 4. Subjects of panels, stamps and... More about Gothic & Renaissance Bookbindings. Exemplified and Illustrated from the Author's Collection....

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1926, First American Edition. quarto, blue cloth in dust jacket. 178 pp. including 64 plates of which 6 are colored. Little, Brown and Company, Monographs on Bookbinding No.1. This volume covers bindings decorated with plaquettes.- Sixteenth-century bindings with architectural decoration.- Thomae Maioli et amicorum.- Apollonio... More about Maioli, Canevari and Others

Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2015, First Edition. large octavo, pictorial boards. 208 pp. Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Text in German. The Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan, Armenia, has been included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register since 1997 and holds the world's largest collection of... More about Kostbare Einbandbeschläge an armenischen Handschriften. Dokumentation jüngster Massnahmen zur...

Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2013, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 534 pp. Legacy Press, Nine authors writing on nine topics. This collection of essays, published as the first volume of a series of studies on the history of bookbinding, sets a high standard for interesting and groundbreaking scholarship... More about Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Volume 1

Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2016, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 517 pp. Legacy Press, Erin Albritton & Christina Amato on "A Study of Two Semi-Limp Parchment Binding Styles in the Rare Book Collection at The New York Academy of Medicine Library"; "Historical Bindings of the Chamberlain-Warren Samaritan Collection"... More about Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Volume 3

Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2019, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 464 pp. Legacy Press, Pictures in Your Pocket: A History of the American Tintype Album; Samaritan Manuscript Bindings from Four Collections in the United States; A Previously Unrecorded Sewing Technique Deciphered During a Study of a Twelfth-Century, Limp... More about Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Volume 5

Ann Arbor: The Legacy Press, 2018, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 707 pp. The Legacy Press, Julia Miller’s second book grew out of the experience of writing Books Will Speak Plain: A Handbook for Identifyingand Describing Historical Bindings, now a recognized classic text on the subject. Meeting... More about Meeting by Accident. Selected Historical Bindings

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2014, Second Printing. quarto, boards in dust jacket. 240pp. Oak Knoll Press, This second printing of David Pearson's English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800 includes a new introduction and a number of additional references and relevant points that have come to light since the book was... More about English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800

London: Shepherds and Oak Knoll Press, 2015, First Edition. large octavo, pictorial wrappers. (208) pp. Shepherds and Oak Knoll Press, This book charts the history of one of the most important craft bookbinding workshops of the twentieth century. Sangorski& Sutcliffe was founded in 1901. The founding partners, Francis Sangorski and... More about The Cinderella of the Arts: A Short History of Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a London Bookbinding...

Brepols Publishers, 2013, First Edition. octavo, pictorial boards. 235 pp. Brepols Publishers, This collection of essays makes an original contribution to medieval manuscript studies through deep engagement with the material side of book creation. The volume brings together major scholars of medieval manuscripts with leading contemporary book artists. The result... More about Scraped, Stroked, and Bound. Materially Engaged Readings of Medieval Manuscripts

London: George Bell and Sons, 1903, Sixth Edition. small octavo, olive cloth stamped in black and gilt. (xx), 190 pp.; followed by (32) pp. of publishers' catalogues. George Bell and Sons, This later edition contains additional material which did not appear in the first edition. With eight half-tone plates and... More about The Art of Bookbinding. A Practical Treatise