ABSTRACT
A part of the history of bookbinding collection-A series of reprint volumes, original monographs, and translations relating to the history of bookbinding. This volume includes a Bibliopegia of bookbinding in two parts- The ‘Books of the Ancients and History of the Art of Bookbinding’. and in part two, ‘The practical art of bookbinding’. This edition includes Brassington’s memoir of Hammett.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|206 pages
The Books of the Ancients, and History of the Art of Bookbinding.
chapter Chapter I|10 pages
On the Records and Writings of the Earliest People; Their Form, and Method of Preservation.
chapter Chapter II|32 pages
Books From Their First Known Form, and Bookbinding in the Times of the Greeks and Romans.
chapter Chapter VI|18 pages
Foregin Binding and Binders, From the Invention of Printing, to the Introduction of Modern Bookbinding.
chapter Chapter IX|38 pages
Sketches and Biographical Notices of Binders, Amateur Professors, and Others, Connected with the Art.
part II|188 pages
The Practical Art of Bookbinding.
