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Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
Dec 5, 2024
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[Books] Cockerell, Douglas. Some Notes on Bookbinding
London: Humphrey Milford,/Oxford University Press, 1929. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed on front free endpaper "To J. Barcham Green From the author Douglas Cockerell Dec. 9th 1907." 12mo. (x), 105, (1) pp. Publisher's binding of quarter tan cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, all edges trimmed; Light scattered foxing.
Fine association copy of a treatise on the art of bookbinding, inscribed by its author, the famous bookbinder Douglas Cockerell (1870-1945) to J. Barcham Green of the famous English paper-making family.


