Bookbinding. A Manual for those interested in the Craft of Bookbinding

MATTHEWS (William)

Bookbinding. A Manual for those interested in the Craft of Bookbinding.

WILLIAM MATTHEWS BINDING ON HIS OWN MANUAL OF BOOKBINDING, INSCRIBED TO HIS WIFE

First edition. Photographic frontispiece and 7 plates. 8vo., 18 x 12cm. Finely bound by William Matthews in full blue crushed goatskin, covers with single gilt fillet border with central panel of knotwork in brown and green goatskin onlay bordered in gilt, spine lettered in gilt with two raised bands and gilt ruled compartments with brown goatskin onlay, elaborate turn-ins with floral gilt borders around a French fillet and triangle border in gilt, stamp signed in gilt ‘W.MATTHEWS.BINDER’. London, Victor Gollancz, 1929.

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MATTHEWS (William)

Bookbinding. A Manual for those interested in the Craft of Bookbinding.

Fine.

Inscribed by William Matthews to his wife, Ellen Matthews, in the year of publication, with the binding likely dating from the same year.

William (Bill) Matthews was one of the most important bookbinders of the 20th century, not only for the skill of his own work but also for the influence his teaching had on the trajectory of British bookbinding as a whole. Having trained at the Central School of Arts and Crafts under Peter McLeish, son of the finisher of the Doves Bindery Charles McLeish, Matthews went on to teach gold tooling to a number of noted binders, including Bryan Maggs, Bernard Middleton and Edgar Mansfield. He remains something of a binders’ binder, who produced a relatively small body of work but who is fondly recalled by many for his generosity of spirit and technical skill.

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