Author: BRASSINGTON (W. Salt)
Title: Historic Bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. With Reproductions of Twenty-four of the Finest Bindings.
Description: London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1891. First edition, 4to (305 x 240mm), xliv, 64pp., 24 plates, some intermittent foxing, orig. quarter morocco, cloth boards lettered in gilt, edges spotted, t.e.g. The plates are arranged in chronological order. Each plate will be found to be described at length with historical notes, precise measurements, press marks, and titles or descriptions appended.

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