A Manual of the Art of Bookbinding: Containing Full Instructions in the Different Branches of Forwarding, Gilding, and Finishing. Also, The Art of Marbling Book-Edges and Paper. The Whole Designed for the Practical Workman, the Amateur, and the Book-Collector
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1856. First edition of the first American bookbinding manual. 8vo (18.6 x 12.5 cm). 318, [1, 18 ads] pages. 12 plates, including frontispiece, seven original marbled paper specimens (some offsetting), illustrations in text. (Text block cracked at p. 206, some occasional soiling and spotting, specimen leaves.....
