MATTHEWS, Brander. Bookbindings Old and New. Notes of a Booklover. With an Account of the Grolier Club of New York . New York & London: Macmillan & Co., 1895. 8 o. 53 plates, including frontispiece, 51 of them reproducing gold-tooled or publishers' bindings, and 46 text illustrations, most of them reproducing bindings. (The last leaf has its corner cut off, with the loss of the page numbers). In a contemporary New York binding signed by Bradstreet's: full brown 'Jansenist' levant morocco, broad inside morocco borders gilt with tendrils ending in azured leafy tools, doublures and endleaves of red watered silk, top edges gilt, other edges uncut, original wrappers bound in; original cloth slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 21 of a special issue of 150 copies printed on Japanese vellum, "of which seventy-five copies have been sold to Messrs. George Bell and Sons for England"; this is one of the copies "reserved for America". This would appear to be the first comprehensive survey of the history of artistic bookbinding from the sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth century (including the reproductions of seven bindings by Cobden-Sanderson), published in the USA. Appropriately, this copy has been handsomely bound by an American bookbinder.
MATTHEWS, Brander. Bookbindings Old and New. Notes of a Booklover. With an Account of the Grolier Club of New York . New York & London: Macmillan & Co., 1895. 8 o. 53 plates, including frontispiece, 51 of them reproducing gold-tooled or publishers' bindings, and 46 text illustrations, most of them reproducing bindings. (The last leaf has its corner cut off, with the loss of the page numbers). In a contemporary New York binding signed by Bradstreet's: full brown 'Jansenist' levant morocco, broad inside morocco borders gilt with tendrils ending in azured leafy tools, doublures and endleaves of red watered silk, top edges gilt, other edges uncut, original wrappers bound in; original cloth slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 21 of a special issue of 150 copies printed on Japanese vellum, "of which seventy-five copies have been sold to Messrs. George Bell and Sons for England"; this is one of the copies "reserved for America". This would appear to be the first comprehensive survey of the history of artistic bookbinding from the sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth century (including the reproductions of seven bindings by Cobden-Sanderson), published in the USA. Appropriately, this copy has been handsomely bound by an American bookbinder.
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