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[004766] Hobson, Anthony. Humanists and Bookbinders – The Origins and Diffusion of the Humanistic Bookbinding 1459-1559 with a Census of Historiated Plaquette and Medallion Bindings of the Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Reprint. 4to. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0523355362. xix, [1], 296pp. Original cloth in DJ

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Colour frontispiece with four other full page photographic plates in colour and illustrated throughout with monochrome photographic illustrations.

“Complex, erudite and fascinating … the great variety and complexity of material presented by Mr Hobson in what is certainly one of the most original and far reaching books on bookbinding published since Apollo and Pegasus” (Mirjam M. Foot in The Book Collector, Spring 1992). “Mr Hobson’s patient research over many years has provided a text of exemplary scholarship which makes compelling reading for the bookbinding historian” (Dorothy A. Harrop in The New Bookbinder, Volume Eleven) “a wealth of facts and new ideas. It has undoubtedly already found its way into many collections and will continue to do so in future. This Fundgrube [rich source] will from now on have to be quoted in publications whenever any of the subjects discussed in it are examined” (Jan Storm van Leeuwen in Quaerendo, Volume 23/1, 1993, page 51)