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Eloquent witnesses : bookbindings and their history
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Eloquent witnesses : bookbindings and their history

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"A volume of essays dedicated to the memory of Dr. Phiroze Randeria."

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Bookbinding research : pitfalls, possibilities and needs / Mirjam M. Foot
Bookbindings, their depictions, their owners and their contents / Jan Storm van Leeuwen
The prize is the proof : four centuries of prize books / Christian Coppens
English centre-piece bookbindings, 1560-1640 / David Pearson
The interpretation of bookbinding structure : an examination of sixteenth century bindings in the Ramey collection in the Pierpoint Morgan Library / Nicholas Pickwoad
Around the Padeloup and Derome workshops : gold-tooled Parisian bindings of the eighteenth century / Giles Barber
"A magnificent and bewildering variety" : Irish bookbinding in the eighteenth century / Mirjam M. Foot
Benjamin West, 1805-1883 / Esther Potter
Collector, dealer and forger : a fragment of nineteenth century binding history / Mirjam M. Foot, Carmen Blacker & Nicholas Poole-Wilson
Womem bookbinders in Britain before the First World War / Marianne Tidcombe.

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Eloquent witnesses : bookbindings and their history. ISBN 1584561173. Published by Bibliographical Society in 2004. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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