Description

Large quarto hardcover in original non price-clipped dust-jacket. 151pp., Glossary, Selected Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with 33 color and 82 monchrome photographs. First American edition thus. A look at the growing number of highly skilled designer-bookbinders of the twentieth century, the first monogrtaphy of its kind, chronicling the craftmanship and beautiful, stimulating, sometiomes controversial, designs of a new era of artists. An invaluable referencve source in a field not so far documented. No previous ownership marks. Small remainder dot at lower edge, as per usual with this title. Dust-jacket protected in mylar cover. A very fine copy in a fine dust-jacket.