Brassingtonton (W. Salt) - A History of the Art of Bookbinding.

Brassington (W. Salt, editor.) A History of the Art of Bookbinding. With some account of the books of the ancients. Royal 4to, pp.xvi,277[2], frontispiece & plates, London: Eliot Stock, 1894.

One of 50 large paper copies; 9 inserted plates (3 coloured), 153 illustrations in the text (20 coloured). Title-page in red and black. Original pale blue cloth ornately titled and blocked in gold, t.e.g., floral endpapers. A very good copy.