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Bookbinding, Handbooks, manuals, Marbling (Bookbinding), GildingPlaces
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Geheimen der boekbinderij: Secrets of bookbinding : an anonymous 19th century Dutch bookbinding manual
1991, publisher not identified
in English and Dutch
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Includes facsimile reprint of: Geheimen der boekbinderij, of Handeleiding voor boekbinders ... / door B ... . Amsterdam : Ipenbuir & van Seldam, [1845 or 6]. (Pollard & Potter, Early bookbinding manuals, no. 63; here dated by Wolfe as 1845 or 6).
Pages [1]-15 on facing pages numbered in duplicate.
"Approximately 250 copies ... have been printed, of which 200 are for sale. The printing was done at Firefly Press, Somerville, Massachusetts ... The marbled samples and cover paper were made by Richard J. Wolfe. The gilded samples were struck at the Harcourt Bindery, Boston ... The edition was cased-in and bound by Mr. Wolfe, and each copy is signed by him."--Colophon.
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