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Leeuwen, Jan Storm van. De achttiende-eeuwse Haagse boekband in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek en het Rijksmuseum Meermanno-Westreenianum. Gravenhage: Staatsdrukkerijs, 1976. Folio.
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450 bindings with rubbings and bindery identification; based on the two collections named in the title.
Publisher's cloth.

Limited
to 500 Copies
Messerli, Douglas.
Djuna Barnes: A bibliography. [New
York]: David Lewis, 1975. 8vo. xx, 131, [1] pp.
$50.00
FAKE!
FRAUD! FORGERY!
Myers, Robin, & Michael Harris,
eds. Fakes and frauds: Varieties of deception in print and manuscript.
Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies; DE: Oak Knoll Press, (1996). 12mo. xi,
[1], 144 pp.
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Excellent compilation of papers by Lotte Hellinga ("`Less than the Whole Truth': False Statements in 15th-Century Colophons"), Michael Treadwell ("On False and Misleading Imprints in the London Book Trade, 1660–1750"), Michael Harris ("Paper Pirates: the Alternative Book Trade in Mid-18th-Century England"), Joseph M. Levine ("`Et tu Brute?': History and Forgery in 18th-Century England"), Nigel Ramsay ("Forgery and the Rise of the London Scrivener's Company"), Nicolas Barker ("Forgery of Printed Documents"), and Tom Davis ("Forged Handwriting"). The essays were presented at a conference in 1989.
New.
18
Specimens of
Hand-Marbled
Paper
Nicholson, James
Bartram. A manual of the art of bookbinding. Sussex, N. J.: I. Nevins,
©1986. Small 8vo. [4], 318 pp.; 12 plts. & 9 ff. of plts. (mounted).
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Facsimile reprint of the 1874 edition of the first American book on bookbinding, originally published in 1856.
This edition includes new illustrations by Iris
Nevins, who created the 18 specimens of hand-marbled paper mounted on nine leaves. Nevins has signed the book and marked it as copy no. 20.
Publisher's green cloth, with hand-marbled paper inlay. A fine copy. (23460)
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