Remarkable Bindings in the British Museum : Selected for their Beauty or Historic Interest (Paperback)

1. Bindings in ivory, metal, enamel, painting; 2. Bindings in leather; 3. Bindings in embroidered silk and velvet; 4. Italian and German bindings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; 5. French bindings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; 6. English bindings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; 7. English and French bindings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Early history of bookbinding; Binding in Germany and the Netherlands; Binding in Italy; Binding in France; Binding in England; Binding as a fine art; Binding as a mechanical art; Binding as a manufacture; Practical points connected with binding; Appendix; Discussion; Catalogue of specimens of binding lent for exhibition; List of engravings.