Nixon, StuartBiblio.com
Howard M NixonBiblio.com
English Restoration Bookbindings: Samuel Mearne and His Contemporaries
1974911T86London: British Museum Publications Limited 1974. First edition. Cloth. Fine. 10" by 7.5". Not Stated. A smart first edition of this vastly illustrated work on English Restoration bookbinding. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and one hundred and twenty-five plates. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive history of English Restoration bookbinding with reference to Samuel Mearne an English Restoration bookbinder referred to by historians as the Queens' Binder and publisher whose work is considered a high point of pre-industrial bookbinding. As well as commentary on his contemporaries. Written by Howard Millar Nixon a British librarian at the British Museum then Librarian of Westminster Abbey and historian of bookbinding. From the library of Christopher Foyle a British philanthropist and the chairman of the famous Foyle's Bookshop in London. In the original red cloth binding. Externally excellent. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Fine British Museum Publications Limited hardcover
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