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[005253] Potten, Ed and Foot, Mirjam (Eds); Hobson, Anthony; de Hamel, Christopher (Preface). Decorated Bookbindings in Renaissance Italy Outside Rome & Venice – A Catalogue. Oxford: Bodleian Library Publishing, 2025. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 9781851246281. [7], viii-xi, [2], 2-563pp, [1]. Original cloth in DJ

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Anthony Hobson (1921-2014), former director of Sotheby’s, devoted a lifetime of observation, travel and study to the history of decorated bookbindings produced in Italy during the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This volume draws together Hobson’s studies of workshops located outside of Rome and Venice, comprising updated versions of previously published articles as well as hitherto unpublished work. It has been supplemented by the editors, Edward Potten and Mirjam Foot, with full bibliographical descriptions, extended provenances and references to published literature (from the blurb)