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MINER, Dorothy [and Howard M. NIXON], compilers. The History of Bookbinding 525-1950 A.D. An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art November 12, 1957 to January 12, 1958. Baltimore: published by the Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1957.
4o. Plates. Morocco-grained leather, sides with geometric designs, spine gilt-lettered, original wrappers bound in (spine a little faded). Provenance: Raphael Esmerian, lender to the exhibit (pencil note on endpaper in Breslauer's hand).
Catalogue of the great American loan exhibition of bindings at the Walters Art Gallery in 1957. "It is significant that all the 718 exhibits came from American permanent and private collections" (Breslauer, Uses, p. 25). Esmerian was among the larges lenders, with 110 of his books exhibited.
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Catalogue of the great American loan exhibition of bindings at the Walters Art Gallery in 1957. "It is significant that all the 718 exhibits came from American permanent and private collections" (Breslauer, Uses, p. 25). Esmerian was among the larges lenders, with 110 of his books exhibited.