English Armorial and Decorative Bindings. Catalogue 665. [ bound with ] Choix de Beaux Livres du Xve au Xixe Siecle; Autographes. Catalogue No. 12 [ Maggs Bros.,Paris, bookseller's catalogue, 1938 ]

Maggs Bros.

Published by Maggs Bros., London and Paris, bookseller's catalogues, [1938], 1938

About this Item

Later cloth (original printed wrappers bound in), 8vo, 128 pp, well-illustrated in black-and-white; 84, [3] pp, colour frontispiece plus 49 plates (some in colour). 94 items + 342 items. From the introduction to catalogue 665: "In compiling this Catalogue we have separated the Armorial or Association items from the definitely decorative bindings. In some cases the two classes may overlap, but they are really distinct in character. To describe a binding in words alone can never do full justice to its worth and nearly all have therefore been illustrated. In each case the size has been added, as the illustrations, in themselves, might be misleading, some showing the bindings full size and others greatly reduced. We do not lay claim to a complete survey of the binder's art in England from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, but the followtng examples would certainly occupy a worthy place in any specialist library, or form a solid foundation on which to build a representative collection." Contents: Armorial Bindings items 1-28; Decorative Bindings (16th-17th century) 29-36; Embroidered and needlework Bindings 37-47; Books bound by Samuel Mearne, Royal Binder to Charles II, or in the Mearne style 48-63; Eighteenth Century 64-83; Nineteenth Century 84-86, Twentieth Century 87-94. Spine darkened, endpapers darkened, otherwise Very Good. Seller Inventory # ABE-52669

Bibliographic Details

Title: English Armorial and Decorative Bindings. ...

Publisher: Maggs Bros., London and Paris, bookseller's catalogues, [1938]

Publication Date: 1938

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition