[Bound by The Garret Bindery] Bookbindings Old and New Unavailable Front hinge of volume I

Front hinge of volume I professionally repaired with Japanese tissue

the Irish Egyptologist's and painter's book

Vertical title and author to second and third compartments of spine

noted art collector

The design surrounds the title in gilt

[Bound by The Garret Bindery] Bookbindings Old and New Unavailable Front hinge of volume IMatthews, Brander. Bookbindings Old and New: Notes of a Book Lover, With an Account of the Grolier Club of New York. With 53 illustrations of bookbindings. Major sections on bookbindings of the past, bookbindings of the present, commercial bookbindings, and books in paper covers. Bound in full grained dark brown morocco by The Garret Bindery (Daniel J. Bunce and John F. Grabau) in 1905, with a beautiful design of an open book surrounded by leaves and