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The Whole art of bookbinding. The whole process of marbling paper / [both] reprinted from the original editions, with a foreword by Bernard C. Middleton and twelve specimens of ...

The first work is a reprint of the earliest English bookbinding manual (Oswestry : Printed and sold for the author by N. Minshall, 1811). Its author may be Henry Parry. The second work is a reprint of ...
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Resurrecting the art of China’s dragon scale bookbinding

At his studio in Beijing, artist Zhang Xiaodong layers hundreds of sheets of thin paper on top of one another until they form a complete and impeccable image. When the chapters of his elaborate books ...