Bookbinding Catalog Available from Oak Knoll Press

The illustrated catalog Ticketed Bookbindings in Nineteenth-Century Britain, published by the Bryn Mawr Library and Oak Knoll Press, will be available this month. Based on the current Rare Book Room exhibition, "It's the Ticket," the catalog describes a collection of 219 signed bindings acquired by Canaday Library in 1997. The text includes an informative introduction by Bernard C. Middleton, noted authority on English bookbinding history, as well as 485 additional entries for bookbinders' tickets identified in the Bryn Mawr collections by Willman Spawn, Honorary Curator of Bookbinding and curator of the exhibition. The catalog is priced at $65 hardbound, $45 paperback, and $35 for gathered sheets that may be hand bound. It may be purchased through Oak Knoll Press, 310 Delaware Street, New Castle, DE 19720, (302) 328-7232, or toll-free 1-800-996-2556.

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