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Tidcombe, Marianne.
Women Bookbinders 1880-1920.
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library; New Castle and London;
Date of Publication: 1996
Stock Code: 14300
First Edition. Octavo, pp., 240. Original publisher’s green quarter cloth over green-and-white floral paper-covered boards; titled in gilt to spine. Numerous colour and black-and-white photographs of bindings within text. Top edge a little dusty with very small spots of foxing. A near-fine copy. A finely printed illustrated history, describing the techniques, materials, and lives of women bookbinders at the height of the era of both publisher’s cloth and fine bindings. A scholarly work. £85.00