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Bookbinding: large and small book presses, and their constituent parts. Engraving by Benard after Lucotte.

Two Indian bookbinders: one trimming page edges in a press, the other decorating a binding. Watercolour.

Bookbinding: book presses and their constituent parts. Engraving by Benard after Lucotte.

Bookbinding: knives, scissors, clamps, etc. Engraving by Benard after Lucotte.

Bookbinding: book presses, and decorating tools. Engraving by Benard after Lucotte.

The muscles of the lower arm and hand dissected and spread out across the dissecting table and a book. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.

A guide to the census of Western medieval bookbinding structures to 1500 in British libraries.

The Birdsall Collection of bookbinders' finishing tools / by Emrys Evans & Rachel Grover.

The printers, stationers and book-binders of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535 / by E. Gordon Duff.

The practical guide to craft bookbinding / Arthur W. Johnson.

Modern design in bookbinding, the work of Edgar Mansfield : 76 full page plates with notes and illustrations on design, and the technique of fine binding by Edgar Mansfield and an illustrated introduction by Howard M. Nixon.

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A guide to the census of Western medieval bookbinding structures to 1500 in British libraries.

The Birdsall Collection of bookbinders' finishing tools / by Emrys Evans & Rachel Grover.

The printers, stationers and book-binders of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535 / by E. Gordon Duff.

The practical guide to craft bookbinding / Arthur W. Johnson.

Modern design in bookbinding, the work of Edgar Mansfield : 76 full page plates with notes and illustrations on design, and the technique of fine binding by Edgar Mansfield and an illustrated introduction by Howard M. Nixon.