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179. Lindsay, Jen. FINE BOOKBINDING: A TECH-
NICAL GUIDE. New Castle, Delaware, and London: Oak
Knoll Press and The British Library, 2009, 9 x 9.75 inches,
Paperback. 216 pages. ISBN 9781584562689. $59.95 $44.96
The purpose of this book is to guide the reader through the
sequence of operations involved in creating a book bound in
leather, or a "fine binding." The author defines a fine binding as a
book fully covered in leather, with leather-jointed endpapers, gilt
edges, and leather doublures. Although a basic knowledge of
bookbinding terms and techniques is assumed, this book is meant
for both novice and experienced bookmakers. The book is intended
to be used as an active guide during the process of fine binding. It
is arranged into sixteen sections, listing the sequence of operations,
beginning with preliminary work and ending with preparing and
putting in leather doublures. Each section includes appropriately
numbered instructions allowing the user to find his or her place in
the sequence of operations with a reference for what step is next.
There are also numbered explanatory sections that include a rationale (why you do it) and technique (how you do
it). The work includes close to 300 black and white illustrations, four appendices, and a bibliography. Sales Rights:
North and South America; available elsewhere from The British Library. [Order No. 102152]
180. Keane, Marguerite A. FINISHED BY HAND, DECORATION IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY
PRINTED BOOKS. N.P.: Chapin Library, 1995, 8vo., stiff paper wrappers. 45, (3) pages. $10.00 $7.50
Limited to 500 copies. Foreword by Robert L. Volz. Illustrated, including two in color. [Order No. 58055]
181. (Center for Book Arts) THE FIRST DECADE, CENTER FOR THE BOOK ARTS, AN EX-
HIBITION AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY SEPTEMBER 7 - NOVEMBER 29, 1984.
New York: Center for Book Arts, 1984, 4to., stiff paper wrappers. 56 pages. $15.00 $11.25
An exhibition held at the New York Public Library from September 7 to November 29, 1994 celebrated the first ten
years of the Center's existence. Including 132 works by 112 artists, it was not intended as a retrospective, but rather
as an overview of traditional book forms, paper arts, bookbinding and art works based on, or alluding to, book
forms. Introduction by Frances O. Mattson, curator of Rare Books at The New York Public Library. Each entry is
accompanied by a black and white photograph. [Order No. 103186]
182. (Shakespeare, William) Yamada, Akihiro (editor). FIRST FOLIO OF SHAKESPEARE, A
TRANSCRIPT OF CONTEMPORARY MARGINALIA IN A COPY OF THE KODAMA
MEMORIAL LIBRARY OF MEISEI UNIVERSITY. Tokyo: Yushodo Press Co., 1998, large 8vo.,
cloth. 357 pages. ISBN 484190252x. $125.00 $93.75
First edition. This book presents a faithful transcription of marginal annotations by an early seventeenth-century
Scottish reader of Shakespeare's First Folio (1623), which is now in possession of the Meisei University Library. As
primary source material for research, this "diplomatic" transcription, accompanied by more than 40 photographic
reproductions of the Folio pages, offers the most reliable information as well as the most definite proof of the rising
readership of the day, not only of Shakespeare's plays, but also of books in general. A long Introduction precedes
the transcription, which is equiped with textual and explanatory footnotes. Also prepared at the end of the book is
a glossarial index that records a large number of words that are not found in the Oxford English Dictionary and
many Scottish words as well. [Order No. 55586]
183. (Bookbinding) Fogelmark, Staffan. FLEMISH AND RELATED PANEL-STAMPED BIND-
INGS, EVIDENCE AND PRINCIPLES. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1990, 4to.,
cloth. xviii, 252 pages. ISBN 0914930141. $75.00 $56.25
Ever since W. H. James Weale laid the foundations for the scholarly study of panel-stamped bindings in 1894, it
has been universally assumed that the stamps were hand-engraved, and thus, that each panel was a unique
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