The earlier Cambridge stationers & bookbinders and the first Cambridge printer.
[Oxford}: printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, 1904. First edition, letterpress printed by Horace Hart, 4to, pp. xv, [1], 81, [1]; title-page printed in black and red, 29 full-page plates; a fine, uncut copy in natural linen over tan paper-covered boards lettered in black direct on spine, with the original printed brown wrappers bound in at end. This copy from the library of Roy Stokes (d. 1995), renowned bibliographer, author, and director of the library school at the University of British Columbia; with his ownership signature on front free endpaper. "The first attempt to secure a proper position for the Cambridge Binders in the history of English bookbinding in the early part of the sixteenth century" (p.1). No. XIII in the Bibliographical Society's Illustrated Monographs series. Item #27834
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Price: $175.00
