[BAYNTUN BINDING]. McMURTRIE, Douglas C. (1888-1944). The Book. The Story of Printing & Bookmaking. London, New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1962. 

8vo. 20th century blue crushed levant gilt, red, brown and yellow lettering-pieces gilt, wide turn-ins gilt, edges gilt, STAMP-SIGNED BY BAYNTUN for Samuel E. Zeitlin, Chicago.

Third revised edition, seventh printing, first published in 1927 as The Golden Book. "The design of books is as much an art as architecture, or painting, or sculpture--and perhaps of more import to the population at large, in that it exerts an esthetic influence upon more people more frequently than any other art" (introduction). 


Property from the Collection of Rhoda H. Clark and The Monastery Hill Bindery

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