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NICHOLSON, James Bartram (1820-1891). A Manual of the Art of Bookbinding: Containing Full Instructions in the Different Branches of Forwarding, Gilding, and Finishing. Also, the Art of Marbling Book-Edges and Paper. The Whole Designed for the Practical Workman, the Amateur, and the Book-Collector. Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1856.
8o (187 x 124 mm). 7 samples of marbled paper and 12 plates of binding designs (some offsetting onto text). Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine (spine partly perished); blue cloth folding case. Provenance: Samuel Vaughan Merrick (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MAJOR AMERICAN MANUAL OF BOOKBINDING, preceded by the American reprint of the English manual The Whole Art of Bookbinding (Richmond, Va., 1824). Nicholson's is an original American contribution, though it does take the section on marbling verbatim from Woolnaugh's Whole Art of Marbling. Mejer 1950; Middleton The Binder's Art 27.
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FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MAJOR AMERICAN MANUAL OF BOOKBINDING, preceded by the American reprint of the English manual The Whole Art of Bookbinding (Richmond, Va., 1824). Nicholson's is an original American contribution, though it does take the section on marbling verbatim from Woolnaugh's Whole Art of Marbling. Mejer 1950; Middleton The Binder's Art 27.