Book Details

Book Reference:	23759
Author:	SARRE (Friedrich)
Title:	Islamic Bookbindings. [Translated from the German by F.D. O’Byrne].
Price:	£495.00
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Description:	Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. [1923]. First English Edition, folio, 167,[1]pp., limited to 550 numbered copies, title and text pages with gold line borders, 36 tipped in coloured and 4 illustrs., in the introduction, orig. cloth, morocco label on spine, uncut. An invaluable book which describes and shows the national and technical characteristics of Egyptian, Persian and Turkish bindings from the 9th to the 19th century. From the library of Bernard H. Breslauer.
Subjects:	Bookbinding | History