McDONNELL, Joseph and Patrick Healy. Gold-Tooled Bookbindings Commissioned by Trinity College in the Eighteenth Century. (Ireland): Irish Georgian Society, (1987), quarto, cloth in dust jacket. xvii, 340pp. First Edition. A documented study of the bookbindings commissioned by Trinity College, Dublin, in the eighteenth century. This represents the first in a series of Studies in the History of Irish Bookbinding. Illustrated with 102 bindings and over 500 rubbings of binders tools. "[The authors] rightly see binding as an adjunct to local printing and publishing on this occasion, and so include an extensive series of printing records, for example, incidentally documenting Berkeley's interest in Greek." David McKitterick, "The Book Collector", Spring, 1989. Fine. Price: USD 150.00 other currencies   order no. 12    inquire

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