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Trade bookbinding in the British Isles, 1660-1800, Stuart Bennett, London: The British Library; New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2004. 176 p.: ill. ISBN 0712348484 (UK)/ 1584561300 (US). £45.00/$85.00 - English bookbinding styles, 1450-1800: a handbook, David Pearson, London: The British Library; New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2005. 221 p.: ill. ISBN 071234842X (UK)/ 1584561408 (US). £35.00/$65.00

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Martin Antonetti*
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Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USA
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References

1. Breslauer, B.H., The uses of bookbinding literature (New York: Book Arts Press, 1986). Breslauer, who died in 2004, was widely considered to be the antiquarian booktrade’s chief authority on the history of bookbinding.Google Scholar
2. Mejer, Wolfgang, in Bibliographie der Buchbindereiliteratur (Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1925), lists 2,691 entries; Hermann Herbst, in Bibliographie der Buchbinderei-literatur, 1924-1932 (Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1933) and in ‘Bucheinbandliteratur 1933-1937’, Jahrbuch der Einbandkunst 4 (1937), lists 2,781 entries; and E A. Schmidt-Künsemüller, in ‘20 Jahre Einbandforschung-ein Bibliographie’, Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens 8 (1967) and in ‘Weiter 10 Jahre Einbandforschung’, Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens 18 (1977), lists approximately 2,500 unnumbered entries.Google Scholar
3. Pollard, Graham, ‘Changes in the style of bookbinding’, The library, 5th series, 11, no. 2 (1956).Google Scholar