Oct 24, 2013 - Sale 2327

Sale 2327 - Lot 34

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(BOOKBINDING.) Cockerell, Douglas. Bookbinding, and the Care of Books: A Handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians. Illustrations by Noel Rooke and others. 8vo, handsome though unsigned binding of red morocco decoratively gilt-stamped with borders, scrolls, and insets of binders' tools on covers and in spine compartments, doublures with floral borders and flower and butterfly stamps, with color leather inlays, spine evenly darkened, ends and joints a bit rubbed; red silk moiré endleaves, all edges trimmed and gilt, rear blanks with marginal dampstaining. New York: Appleton, 1908