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G.D. Hobson: 'English Binding before 1500. The Sandars Lectures 1927.', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1929, first edition, limited to 500 copies for sale only, ex library, viii + 58 pages of text, preceding 55 full page plates of bindings complete, folio (38 x 25cm), original cloth gilt, top edge gilt. Divided into two sections: The first lecture deals principally with romanesque bindings from before 1300, of which approximately half the known examples were English, and the second with the Gothic bindings of the second half of the fifteenth century. Contents includes Gothic Bindings 1300-1500, Early Irish Bindings and Satchels, Romanesque Bindings (including those of the Bibliothèque de la Ville, Troyes), English Cut Leatherwork, 1300-1500, An Attempted Classification of Oxford 15th-Century Bindings, English 'small-stamp' Binderies working before 1510, etc. Remains a key reference work
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