Lot 31
Bookbinding.- Receipts for Book Binding: Containing Valuable Recipes for Sprinkling, Marbling & Colouring, manuscript, calligraphic title, original half calf, Basingstoke, 1822.
Hammer Price: £2,800
Description
Bookbinding.- Receipts for Book Binding: Containing Valuable Recipes for Sprinkling, Marbling & Colouring, manuscript, calligraphic title, 87pp. and 7pp. index at end., 1p. in pencil, manuscript recipe "Composition for the Rollers" with pen and ink drawings loosely inserted, original half calf, rubbed, upper cover detached, spine extensively rubbed and torn at head and tail, 210 x 170mm., Basingstoke, 1822.
⁂ Recipes of a provincial Georgian bookbinder.
Recipes, include: "Backing"; "Marbling &c."; "Purple Marble"; "Green Spots on Calf"; "Gold Edges"; "Imitation of Russia"; "To Colour Vellum Green"; "Blue for the Edges of Books" etc.
Description
Bookbinding.- Receipts for Book Binding: Containing Valuable Recipes for Sprinkling, Marbling & Colouring, manuscript, calligraphic title, 87pp. and 7pp. index at end., 1p. in pencil, manuscript recipe "Composition for the Rollers" with pen and ink drawings loosely inserted, original half calf, rubbed, upper cover detached, spine extensively rubbed and torn at head and tail, 210 x 170mm., Basingstoke, 1822.
⁂ Recipes of a provincial Georgian bookbinder.
Recipes, include: "Backing"; "Marbling &c."; "Purple Marble"; "Green Spots on Calf"; "Gold Edges"; "Imitation of Russia"; "To Colour Vellum Green"; "Blue for the Edges of Books" etc.
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