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Bookbinding

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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.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Women bookbinders, 1880-1920 / Marianne Tidcombe.

    Tidcombe, Marianne. | Date: 1996
    • Books

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

    • Books

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

    Evans, Emrys. | Date: 1972
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    The printers, stationers and book-binders of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535 / by E. Gordon Duff.

    Duff, E. Gordon (Edward Gordon), 1863-1924. | Date: 1906
    • Books

    Commercial bookbindings : an historical sketch, with some mention of an exhibition of drawings, covers, and books, at the Grolier Club, April 5 to April 28, 1894.

    Grolier Club | Date: 1894
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