{"product_id":"fine-binding-monastery-hill-bindery-large-paper-copy-the-binding-of-books","title":"[Fine Binding | Monastery Hill Bindery | Large Paper Copy] The Binding of Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eHorne, Herbert P. \u003cem\u003eThe Binding of Books: An Essay in the History of Gold-Tooled Bindings\u003c\/em\u003e. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner \u0026amp; Co., 1894. Large paper copy, limited to 150 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper, of which this is #72. Illustrated throughout with plates of historically significant bindings (all the way up to T.J. Cobden-Sanderson). Volume VI in Pollard’s “Books About Books” series. A focused essay on the history of gold-tooled bindings, with chapters on the craft of binding, early Italian work, French bindings, English bindings, and the development of style and ornament.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in dark green morocco by The Monastery Hill Bindery (signed in gilt on the rear turn-in). Covers tooled in gilt with multiple concentric rectangular rules, repeated on both boards. Spine with five raised bands, title and author to second and third compartments, the remaining compartments with matching nested rectangular tooling. Wide gilt-ruled turn-ins with green watered silk doublures and endleaves, top edge gilt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeasures approx. 6\" x 9.25\". Spine slightly faded from green toward olive. Front upper corner bumped and slightly worn. Some minor spots of rubbing to edges and corners. Small (0.75\") closed horizontal crack to top spine band (likely bumped at some point).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Under the Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46531983409348,"sku":null,"price":950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0461\/8328\/4899\/files\/DSC_0100_f49356cc-2146-4a0d-bbef-ed9788ea37ab.jpg?v=1787537704","url":"https:\/\/www.underthehillbooks.com\/products\/fine-binding-monastery-hill-bindery-large-paper-copy-the-binding-of-books","provider":"Under the Hill Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}