Bolton, Claire

A Winchester bookshop & bindery, 1729-1991

Oxford: Alembic Press, 1991. Edition limited to 250 copies (this, no. 105), 8vo, pp. 77, [3]; 16 photographic illustrationson rectos and versos of 8 plates, shop plans, facsimiles, and tables in the text; original terracotta cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, gilt titling on spine; fine. The long and esteemed history of the Wells Bookshop and bindery, starting with the booksellers Thomas & John Burden, and passing through the hands of James Robbins, David Nutt and Joseph Wells, one of the oldest antiquarian enterprises in the U.K. Item #50286

Price: $45.00