English Bookbindings in the British Museum [with] Foreign Bookbindings

FLETCHER (William Younger)

English Bookbindings in the British Museum [with] Foreign Bookbindings in the British Museum

Each one of 500 copies. 2 vols. 63 + 65 chromolithographic plates, title page printed in red and black. Folio, 38 x 30cm. Full green goatskin binding with geometric designs of triple gilt fillets and rules to upper and lower covers, spines with five raised bands and 7 gilt ruled compartments, three of which are lettered in gilt, elaborate turn-ins tooled with gilt leaf sprays with red and brown onlay, binder’s signature ‘Tregaskis Caxton Head’ at tail, vellum doublures decorated in gilt, vellum endpapers. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1895.

£3,000.00

FLETCHER (William Younger)

English Bookbindings in the British Museum [with] Foreign Bookbindings in the British Museum

Very good, spines faded to brown, covers with inoffensive scuffs, extremities rubbed, spotting to foredge.

An important survey of British and ‘foreign’ bookbindings in the British Museum, in a binding demonstrating both restraint in the plain geometric rules of the covers and extravagant luxury in the highly decorated turn-ins and doublures. A fitting celebration for one of the greatest collections of bookbindings.

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247756

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