Description

[003911] Hobson, G.D. Maioli, Canevari and Others. London: Ernest Benn, 1926. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Good / No Jacket. [6], vii-xvi, 178pp, plates. Original cloth, title, author and publisher in gilt to spine

Small tear to head, corners bumped, cloth worn through in a couple of places to bottom edges. Internally the page corners are lightly bumped, text slightly browned, but generally clean

With sixty-four plates (six in colour and tissue guarded, and fifty-eight monochrome)

Breslauer, The Uses of Bookbinding Literature, page 28; Hobson, The Literature of Bookbinding, page 6; Middleton, The Binder’s Art 37, “an important work”; Appleton, page 81; Brenni 568 and 1036; Mejer-Herbst 378; Schmidt-Kunsemuller 4068