THE BOOKBINDING

COLLECTION

 

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AN ABSOLUTE MUST FOR ANYONE WITH AN INTEREST IN THE ANCIENT ART OF BOOKBINDING....

 

THIS REALLY IS A SUPERB COLLECTION OF VINTAGE BOOKS ON ONE UNIQUE DVD DATA DISC, INCLUDING SOME REALLY RARE TITLES COVERING EVERYTHING TO DO WITH BOOKBINDING AND COLLECTING ANTIQUE BOOKS. THE FULL LIST OF TITLES SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.

 

 

 

The fabulous collection of full, original vintage books have all been professionally scanned in high quality, compiled and preserved forever in pdf format on a DVD data disc.

 

 

This unique DVD contains 79 titles in total, providing thousands of pages of great content and fabulous illustrations together with hundreds of photos and copies of some of the world’s rarest and  most exquisite bookbindings ever created!

All of the files are presented in pdf format, easy to read on your computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone, or Kindle / ebook reader.

 

 

The full list of titles is as follows:

 

 

A collection of excessively rare books, letters and illuminated manuscripts (1909)

 

A guide to the exhibition in the King's Library illustrating the history of printing, music-printing and bookbinding by The British Museum (1901)

 

A guide to the manuscripts, autographs, charters, seals, illuminations and bindings exhibited in the Department of manuscripts and in the Grenville library. With twenty plates (1899)

 

A history of the art of bookbinding. With some account of the books of the ancients by W. Brassington (1894)

 

A note on bookbinding by D. Cockerell (1904)

 

A short historical sketch of the art of bookbinding by W. Andrews (1895)

 

A short history of bookbinding and a glossary of styles and terms used in binding by J. Zaehnsdorf (1895)

 

An essay on bookbinding as an art with some suggestions to collectors on the care of books by A. L. Bancroft (1886)

 

An historical sketch of bookbinding by S. Prideaux (1893)

 

Bib-li-op-e-gis-tic  (pertaining to the art of binding books.--Dibdin) (1910)

 

Binding for libraries (1915)

 

Book of type specimens (1907)

 

Bookbinders and their craft by S. Prideaux (1903)

 

Bookbinding and its auxiliary branches - Volume 1 by J. Pleger (1914)

 

Bookbinding and its auxiliary branches - Volume 3 by J. Pleger (1914)

 

Bookbinding as a handwork subject by J. Halliday (1915)

 

Bookbinding for amateurs by W. Crane (1885)

 

Bookbinding for bibliophiles by F. Battershall (1905)

 

Bookbinding in France by W. Fletcher (1894)

 

Bookbinding, and the care of books; a handbook for amateurs, bookbinders & librarians by D. Cockerell (1901)

 

Bookbinding, with numerous engravings and diagrams by P. Hasluck (1907)

 

Bookbindings, old and new; notes of a book-lover, with an account of the Grolier Club, New York by B. Matthews (1896)

 

Catalogue of an exhibition of nineteenth century bookbindings (1898)

 

Catalogue of beautiful books richly bound offered for sale by George D. Smith, New York (1918)

 

Catalogue of the magnificent private library of the late Amor L. Hollingsworth of Milton, Mass. many in sumptuous bindings by the finest binders in the world (1910)

 

Commercial bookbinding; a description of the processes and the various machines used by G. Stephen (1910)

 

Cowie's bookbinder's manual by G. Cowie (1852)

 

Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects by W. Andrews (1902)

 

Early Oxford bindings by S. Gibson (1903)

 

Examples of bookbinding executed by Robt. Rivière & Son (1920)

 

Exhibition of silver, embroidered, and curious bookbinding by Grolier Club (1903)

 

Folious appearances - A consideration on our ways of lettering books by J. Tupling (1854)

 

Historic bindings in the Bodleian library, Oxford; with reproductions of twenty-four of the finest bindings by W. Brassington (1891)

 

La reliure de luxe, Le livre et l'amateur by L. Derôme (1888)

 

La reliure du XIXe siècle Vol. 1 by H. Beraldi (1895)

 

La reliure du XIXe siècle Vol. 2 by H. Beraldi (1895)

 

La reliure du XIXe siècle Vol. 3 by H. Beraldi (1895)

 

La reliure du XIXe siècle Vol. 4 by H. Beraldi (1895)

 

L'art dans la décoration extérieure des livres, en France et a l'étranger  les couvertures illustrées, les cartonnages d'éditeurs; la reliure d'art by O. Uzanne (1898)

 

L'art de la reliure en France aux derniers siècles by E. Fournier (1864)

 

Les femmes bibliophiles; catalogue of a collection of books bound by famous binders for royal and distinguished ladies from Marguerite de Valois to the Empress Eugénie (1919)

 

Library bookbinding by A. Bailey (1916)

 

List of manuscripts, printed books and examples of bookbinding exhibited to the American librarians on the occasion of their visit to Haigh Hall (1897)

 

Manual of library bookbinding practical and historical by H. Coutts (1911)

 

Manuel historique et bibliographique de l'amateur de reliures by L. Gruel (1887)

 

Modern bookbinding practically considered by W. Matthews (1889)

 

Modern book-bindings & their designers by E. Wood (1900)

 

Modern bookbindings, their design and decoration by S. Prideaux (1906)

 

New books for old by M. Wheelock (1916)

 

Notes on bookbinding for libraries by J. Dana (1910)

 

Nouveau manuel complet du relieur by L. Lenormand (1853)

 

One hundred and eighty-eight manuscripts, bindings, books, and autograph letters including the magnificent Calvillo Pontifical written and illuminated in Spain (1365-1370) (1922)

 

Partial bibliography of bookbinding by M. Bridgman (1901)

 

Practical bookbinding by P. Adam (1903)

 

Practical bookbinding by W. Pearce (1908)

 

Printing and bookbinding for schools by S. Vaughn (1914)

 

Printing and writing materials their evolution by A. Smith (1912)

 

Remarkable bindings in the British Museum, selected for their beauty or historic interest by H. Wheatley (1889)

 

Report of the Committee on leather for bookbinding by The Royal Society of Arts - Great Britain (1905)

 

Royal English book bindings by C. Davenport (1896)

 

The Art of Bookbinding by H. P. du Bois (1883)

 

The Art of Bookbinding by J. Zaehnsdorf (1880)

 

The art of the book; a review of some recent European and American work in typography, page decoration & binding by C. Holme (1914)

 

The binding of books - an essay in the history of gold-tooled bindings by H. Horne (1894)

 

The book collector by W. Hazlitt (1904)

 

The book its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time by H. Bouchot (1890)

 

The book, its history and development by C. Davenport (1907)

 

The catalogue of books from the libraries or collections of celebrated bibliophiles and illustrious persons of the past, with arms or devices upon the bindings (1895)

 

The colonial printer by L. Wroth (1918)

 

The earliest Cambridge stationers & bookbinders, and the first Cambridge printer by G. Gray (1904)

 

The hand-book of taste in book-binding by E. Churton (1800)

 

The printed book by H. Aldis (1916)

 

The printers' handbook of trade recipes, hints & suggestions relating to letterpress and lithographic printing, bookbinding stationery, engraving, etc. by C. Jacobi (1891)

 

The private library by A. Humphreys (1897)

 

The Spencer Collection of modern book bindings (1914)

 

Women in the bookbinding trade by M. Van Kleeck (1913)

 

Works on bookbinding, practical and historical (1903)

 

 

 

  

The most amazing and comprehensive collection of vintage books on bookbinding and finishing available on eBay today!

 

 

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All of the files are presented in pdf format, easy to read on your computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone, or any modern Kindle / ebook reader that can read pdf files. All files can be printed or transferred between devices.

 

For some devices you may need to convert the pdf files. A free program called Calibre can be used to do this and can be included on the DVD if requested.

 

Please note that this is a data DVD that will contain all of the books, documents and material listed in this auction. It will work in a laptop or computer but will not work on a DVD player or audio CD player.

* Main photo is for illustration purposes only – other photos are example pages from the books included on the disc *

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