Item #410859 The Care of Books. An Essay on the Development of Libraries and their Fittings, from the earliest times to the end of the Eighteenth Century. John Willis CLARK.
The Care of Books. An Essay on the Development of Libraries and their Fittings, from the earliest times to the end of the Eighteenth Century

The Care of Books. An Essay on the Development of Libraries and their Fittings, from the earliest times to the end of the Eighteenth Century

Cambridge: University Press, 1901. 8vo (26 x 17.5 inches). Profusely illustrated. Blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. A few trifling marks to covers. Item #410859

Edith Diehl's copy, with her morocco book label. A fine association copy: Edith Diehl (1876-1953) was an American bookbinder and author of 'Bookbinding, its Background and Technique' (Rinehart and Co., 1946), the classic text and manual on the history and craft of bookbinding.

Price: $300.00

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