Unsurpassed

Ramsden, Charles

[BINDINGS - REFERENCE]. French Bookbinders, 1789-1848. Reprint Edition

London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1989. Hardcover. xiv, 228 pp. 40 illustrations. Reprint edition; first published 1950. Original cloth, dust-jacket (price clipped, a little worn). Ownership inscription on first blank leaf. Very good / Good. Item #2174

Indispensable, still unsurpassed. A work of an almost heroic nature that describes approximately 2,000 French bookbinders and binderies, arranged alphabetically, all with locations and dates of operation, most entries containing valuable biographical information, some of which is available nowhere else.

Price: $25.00