Mar 14, 2002 - Sale 1928

Sale 1928 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 805
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
DOUGLAS COCKERELL'S COPY, WITH AN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTCOBHAM, VISCOUNT; and WOOD, SIR HENRY TRUEMAN; editors. Report of the Committee on Leather for Bookbinding. 10 tipped-in color plates; one monochrome plate; 12 leather specimens mounted on pastedowns. 4to, original cloth, slightly shaken, joints and spine ends rubbed.. London, 1905

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Second edition, greatly expanded, of an account first published in the July 1901 Journal of the Society of Arts of investigations into the durability of binding leathers then in use and factors contributing to their deterioration.<