[BINDINGS]. A Collection of facsimiles from examples of historic or artistic book-binding [bookbinding], illustrating the history of binding as a branch of the decorative arts. BOUND WITH: Examples of the art of book-illumination during the Middle Ages reproduced in facsimile
London: Quaritch, 1889. First Edition. Thick 4to (ca. 27.5 x 21 x 5 cm). Bound in contemporary blue crushed levant morocco after a Grolier binding depicted on Plate [23] of the present catalogue: gold line fillets with ornaments in corners; inside borders gold-tooled; blue-green watered silk endleaves and pastedows; spine..... More