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Broxbourne Library : styles and designs of bookbindings from the twelfth to the twentieth century

Archive Print Item: Large Bibliography D-11.5/BRO

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Type of record: Book

Title: Broxbourne Library : styles and designs of bookbindings from the twelfth to the twentieth century

Other titles: Styles and designs of bookbindings from the twelfth to the twentieth century

Level: Item

Classmark: Large Bibliography D-11.5/BRO

Creator(s): Nixon, Howard M

Additional creator(s): Ehrman, Albert (Other)

Related people: Ehrman, Albert

Publisher: Published for the Broxbourne Library by Maggs Brothers

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1956

Language: English

Size and medium: ix, [1], 250, [1] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/188836

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008788739705181

Description

"300 copies printed at the University Press, Cambridge (Brooke Crutchley, University Printer). Collotypes by L. Van Leer & Company of Amsterdam. Colour blocks by John Swain & Son of London. Photographs by Peter Parkinson, A.I.B.P. of London. Paper by Grosvenor, Chater & Company of London. Binding by C. & H.T. Evans of Croydon."


The selection of bindings are from the library of Albert Ehrman.


Bound in half modern vellum with title in gilt on blue morocco label mounted on spine.


Includes bibliographic references.

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