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English Bookbinding Styles has just arrived at Oak Knoll!
This long-awaited work provides excellent guidance on
recognizing and dating English bookbindings of the hand-press period. In
addition to providing practical help in placing particular bindings within
their time and place, the book encourages a new approach to historic bindings,
concentrating on what a binding can tell us about previous owners and their
approach to books. This book is beautifully illustrated with 8 color and 200
black-and-white illustrations.
The author, David Pearson, is the Librarian of the
Wellcome Library and worked previously in the National Art Library and The
British Library. His well-received books and articles on bookbinding history
have established him as one of
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