Remarkable bindings in the British Museum : selected for their beauty or historic interest / and described by Henry B. Wheatley.

  • Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917.
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1889
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Remarkable bindings in the British Museum : selected for their beauty or historic interest / and described by Henry B. Wheatley. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington ; Paris : Gruel & Engelmann, 1889.

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xv, 143 pages, lxii leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm

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"The inception of the book is due to Mr. Joseph Cundall, who arranged its plan and worked out its details."--Pref.
"The photographs of the bindings were taken at the British Museum by Mr. L. B. Fleming, by the ortho-chromatic process, and were printed in monotint by Messrs. Aron frères of Paris, under the superintendence of M. Léon Gruel."

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