"An enlarged reprint" of the "Introduction to the Catalogue of the exhibition of bindings, held at the Burlington fine arts club, in ... 1891". The articles "Embroidered book-covers", "The use of metal in bound books" and "Book-edge decoration", appeared first in the Magazine of art, v.13-15
Includes index
Copy 1 Note: No.106 of a limited edition of 120 copies printed on hand-made paper.
Copy 2 Supplier/Donor: Akers Note: Imperfect: wanting the frontispiece. Interleaved throughout, with occasional annotations, apparently towards a revised edition (i.e. by the author?); see facing p. 29, 49, 64, 233, 250, 302. Binding: contemp. half morocco. Book-plate of Charles J. Tabor. Originally purchased by Wellcome at the auction of Tabor's library at Hodgson's, 7 Nov. 1928 (lot 702), orig. accession no. 60444. Subsequently sold (presumably as a duplicate) and acquired by Bob Akers, from whom it was re-purchased.
