Description

[004186] Prideaux, S. T. Modern Bookbindings Their Design and Decoration. London: Archibald Constable and Co., 1906. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good+ / No Jacket (as Issued?). x, [3], 4-131pp, [1]. Original cloth, with title, author, publisher and place in gilt to spine, and Prideaux’s monogram in gilt to upper cover, t.e.g.

Upper cover slightly faded at head, fore edge of text block foxed, light foxing to a few text leaves, one plate slightly loose. Former owner’s name to ffep

With forty monochrome photographic plates, showing fifty-eight bindings

Appleton, page 84; Brenni 411; Mejer 952; Schmidt-Kunsemuller 5660