Bookbinding in the British Isles, Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century. Catalogue 1212.
Maggs Bros. Ltd.
Limited to 1000 copies, in two parts. Part I with 16 coloured and 100 black and white illustrations, 239 pp. Part II with 11 coloured and 124 black and white illustrations and index, 283 pp. Folio, 295 x 210 mm, both parts bound in decorative limp card wrappers. ISBN 0 901953 08 3. London, Maggs Bros. Ltd., 1996
A catalogue of 347 bindings commencing with sixteenth-century blind-stamped bindings and including Elizabethan and Jacobean gold-tooled bindings, with examples by the Edward and Mary binder, Williamson and the Squirrel Binder, a number of fine embroidered bindings, specimens from some of the great workshops of the Restoration period including Samuel and Charles Mearne, Bartlett, Harding, Dawson the elder, and the Royal heads Binder, Naval, Devotional, Queen's Binder A and Geometrical Compartment. A backless binding by Richard Balley and a well known binding by Robert Steel. Books bound for Thomas Wotton, William Cecil, James VI of Scotland, Sir Kenelm Digby, John Evelyn, Charles II, Queen Anne, Elkanah Settle, Horace Walpole, Thomas Hollis, Jonas Hanway, William Beckford and William Wordsworth. The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries represented by William Seale, Thomas Elliott, Brindley, Moor, Linde, Wier, Payne, Scott, Black, Smith, Gosden, Lovejoy and other Masonic binders, Kalthoeber and the many German binders working in London. Some fine Edwards of Halifax vellum bindings, also several remarkable bindings by Bartholomew Frye from his Halifax and Manchester addresses, mostly with original fore-edge paintings/ The period also includes a number of Scottish and an outstanding selection of the finest Irish bindings. The later nineteenth century and twentieth century are represented by Victorian embossed bindings, Riviere, Zaehnsdorf, Cobden-Sanderson and the Doves Bindery, McLeish, Douglas Cockerell, the Hampstead Bindery, the Guild of Women Binders and other women binders including Prideaux, Adams and Pye,. Also bindings by George Fisher and the Gregynog Press Bindery, and William Matthews, together with current and past members of Designer Bookbinders including some examples by Edgar Mansfield.
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