Item #50855 THOMAS BERTHELET: Royal Printer and Bookbinder to Henry VIII. King Of England, with Special Reference to His Bookbindings. Cyril Davenport.
THOMAS BERTHELET: Royal Printer and Bookbinder to Henry VIII. King Of England, with Special Reference to His Bookbindings.
THOMAS BERTHELET: Royal Printer and Bookbinder to Henry VIII. King Of England, with Special Reference to His Bookbindings.
THOMAS BERTHELET: Royal Printer and Bookbinder to Henry VIII. King Of England, with Special Reference to His Bookbindings.

THOMAS BERTHELET: Royal Printer and Bookbinder to Henry VIII. King Of England, with Special Reference to His Bookbindings.

Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1901.

Limited edition. Hardcover. Good plus. Item #50855

Quarto. 102pp. LIMITED EDITION of 252 copies on handmade paper. Contains eighteen full-page plates (8 are color chromolithographs) of bookbindings executed by Berthelet. Six text engravings. Original quarter red cloth over grey paper boards, printed paper spine label. Un-opened, untrimmed. Cloth spine is darkened, rubbed and frayed at ends. Spine label is browned and chipped. Some of the tissue guards are creased. Toning to edges. Some foxing, mostly to first and last few pages. Neat ownership signature on fly-leaf; small stamp last page. A good, solid copy.

Price: $200.00