The Thames and Hudson manual of bookbinding (The Thames and Hudson manuals)

Pp. 224; 270 illustrations (12 in color). Publisher's original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and with gilt symbol on the front cover, color pictorial dust jacket, lg 8vo. The illustrations show the tools, material and processes and step-by-step line drawings of bookbinding. In addition, there are striking examples of binder's art both historic and modern. This is the scarce first edition in the original cloth binding with dust jacket. No ownership marks.