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QUARITCH, Bernard, Ltd. A Collection of Facsimiles from Examples of Historic or Artistic Book-Binding, Illustrating the History of Binding as a Branch of the Decorative Arts. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1889.
4o (275 x 198 mm). 103 color plates, text and plates mounted on guards (most text and plate leaves tissue lined on one side). Twentieth-century red morocco, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, original wrappers bound in.
This 1889 catlague is the second on bindings which Quaritch produced; the 1887 catalogue preceding this was unillustrated. Among the bindings are "alas, several blatant forgeries" (Breslauer, Uses, p. 24).
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This 1889 catlague is the second on bindings which Quaritch produced; the 1887 catalogue preceding this was unillustrated. Among the bindings are "alas, several blatant forgeries" (Breslauer, Uses, p. 24).