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(FINE BINDING/PLANTIN) DE VINNE, Theo. L. Christopher Plantin And The Plantin-Moretus Museum At Antwerp. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell, and Others.
New York: The Grolier Club, 1888. 1 of 300 copies. Small 4to., rebound in full brown morocco, raised bands, a triple gilt border with small gilt decoration at the corners and with the logo of The Grolier Club in the centre of the boards, elaborate gilt inner dentelles, t.e.g., by Bradstreet's, (99)pp. With the original wrappers bound in. A fine copy.
‘Bradstreet's and Matthews were the founding firms of American fine binding. Bradstreet's rated a highly honorable mention in Henri Pène du Bois' Historical Essay on the Art of Bookbinding (1883): Bookbinding "was not an art to be restricted to one nation or to one family, as tradition would have it in France, and forthwith did Bradstreet's of New York, undertake to make it American also; and now, if the rallied book collectors of the Old World point with pride to Trautz-Bauzonnet, Lortic, Marius Michel, Hardy, Amand, Bedford, Smeers, Riviere and Zaehnsdorf, the New World may retort with Matthews and Bradstreet's. And deservedly, because there is a solidity, strength and squareness of workmanship about the books of the Bradstreet bindery which seem to convince that they may be 'tossed from the summit of Snowdon to that of Cader Idris,' without detriment or serious injury. Certainly, none can put a varied colored morocco coat on a book, and gild it with greater perfection in choice of ornament and splendor of gold, and with greater care, taste and success, than Bradstreet's" (p. 35).' (www.booktryst.com).
$1,500 (CAD)
(FINE BINDING/PLANTIN) DE VINNE, Theo. L. Christopher Plantin And The Plantin-Moretus Museum At Antwerp. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell, and Others.New York: The Grolier Club, 1888. 1 of 300 copies. Small 4to., rebound in full brown morocco, raised bands, a triple gilt border with small gilt decoration at the corners and with the logo of The Grolier Club in the centre of the boards, elaborate gilt inner dentelles, t.e.g., by Bradstreet's, (99)pp. With the original wrappers bound in. A fine copy.
‘Bradstreet's and Matthews were the founding firms of American fine binding. Bradstreet's rated a highly honorable mention in Henri Pène du Bois' Historical Essay on the Art of Bookbinding (1883): Bookbinding "was not an art to be restricted to one nation or to one family, as tradition would have it in France, and forthwith did Bradstreet's of New York, undertake to make it American also; and now, if the rallied book collectors of the Old World point with pride to Trautz-Bauzonnet, Lortic, Marius Michel, Hardy, Amand, Bedford, Smeers, Riviere and Zaehnsdorf, the New World may retort with Matthews and Bradstreet's. And deservedly, because there is a solidity, strength and squareness of workmanship about the books of the Bradstreet bindery which seem to convince that they may be 'tossed from the summit of Snowdon to that of Cader Idris,' without detriment or serious injury. Certainly, none can put a varied colored morocco coat on a book, and gild it with greater perfection in choice of ornament and splendor of gold, and with greater care, taste and success, than Bradstreet's" (p. 35).' (www.booktryst.com).
$1,500 (CAD)
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