The History of Bookbinding, 525-1950 A.D.; an Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, November 12, 1957, to January 12, 1958 organized by the Walters Art Gallery and presented in cooperation with the Baltimore Museum of Art.

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Pictorial cloth, 4to, 28 cm, xi, 275 pp, 106 plates. 718 items. An important and detailed catalogue ("a landmark in the Study of bookbinding"- Rosenblum) of a major exhibition, which was the most comprehensive to have been held since the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of 1891. The 718 entries range from a Byzantine diptych of 525 AD through to contemporary artists' designs, with a final section of about 40 bindings for miniature books from the 14th to 20th centuries. The entries for English bindings were prepared by, or reviewed by, Howard M. Nixon; entries generally are carefully described, with critical notes and references to published works, Some 184 are illustrated on 106 half-tone plates. Spine faded as usual. Faintly musty, otherwise Good. Errata slip laid in.14 plates extracted chiefly from Le Bibliophile Francais laid in ( somewhat musty and duststained at edges). N° de ref. del artículo ABE-60100

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