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Total number of records: 83

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Books and printed items82
Archives1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection45
Herbert Read Collection5
Ripon Cathedral4

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
bookbinding76
books11
printing9
illumination of books and manuscripts8
rare books8
bibliography7
book collectors7
bookbinders6
engraving6
incunabula4

Count of Place

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France3
England1
Italy1
Pennsylvania1
United States1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847)6
Hobson, G D (1882-1949)5
Nixon, Howard M5
Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)4
British Museum4
Ramsden, Charles4
Abbey, J. R. (John Roland), 1896-19693
Arts Council of Great Britain3
Bodleian Library3
Davenport, Cyril (1848-1941)3

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From 180022
From 190059

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Up to 199959

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An exhibition of modern English and French bindings : from the collection of Major J.R. Abbey

James, Philip; Arts Council of Great Britain

1949

Introduction by Philip James.

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An exhibition of modern English and French bindings : from the collection of Major J.R. Abbey

James, Philip; Arts Council of Great Britain

1949

Introduction by Philip James.

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An exhibition of modern English and French bindings : from the collection of Major J.R. Abbey

James, Philip; Arts Council of Great Britain

1949

Introduction by Philip James.

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Royal English bookbindings

Davenport, Cyril (1848-1941)

1896

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Royal English bookbindings

Davenport, Cyril (1848-1941)

1896

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Binding variants in English publishing, 1820-1900

Carter, John Wayneflete (1905-1975)

1932

"Parts of chapter II originally appeared in the Colophon and the Book collector's quarterly." [p. xiii]. "This edition... is limited to 500 copies".

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Thirty bindings

Hobson, G D (1882-1949); First Edition Club (London, England)

1926

Edition of 600 copies.

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The story of the great Omar bound by Francis Longinus Sangorski and its romantic loss

Stonehouse, John Harrison

1933

"One hundred copies... have been printed of which numbers 1 to 75 only are for sale."

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L'art du relieur doreur de livres

Dudin, René Martin (1725-1807?); Académie des Sciences

1772

Part of a series, Description des arts et métiers, published by the Académie des sciences, Paris, 1761-1789. Imprint from colophon.

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Europäische Einbandkunst aus Mittelalter und Neuzeit

Mazal, Otto; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

[1970]

Includes bibliographical references.

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Early Oxford bindings

Gibson, Strickland (1877-1958); Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)

1903

"A contribution to the history of bookbinding at Oxford down to the period of the civil war; it treats solely of bindings decorated with stamps and rolls to the exclusion of all gilt-tooled work."

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