Recollections: A Life in Bookbinding by Middleton, Bernard C. (2000) Hardcover

Physical description: xii, 126 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.(some col.) ; 27 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-126). Summary: Bernard Middleton has been practising as a bookbinder, and writing about the history and craft of bookbinding, for more than 60 years. In this volume, a revised and expanded version of the memoir published in 1994 in a fine press edition by Bird & Bull Press, he writes about his life as a bookbinder, and many of his bindings are reproduced in colour. Subject: Middleton, Bernard C.- Biography - Diaries. Bookbinding, post-Medieval - Industrial / commercial art & design - ART / Individual Artists / Monographs - book design. Books - Conservation and restoration - Great Britain - History - 20th century. Other names: Tidcombe, Marianne. Genre: Autobiography, Bibliography, Illustrated.