Trade Bookbinding In The British Isles, 1660-1800

by Stuart Bennett

2004 176 pages eng

"Stuart Bennett's landmark study is the first illustrated guide to a complex and controversial subject. In 1930, in The Evolution of Publishers' Binding Styles, Michael Sadleir declared that "the bookseller-publisher of the decades from 1730 to 1770 issued his books either in loose quires, or stitch…