Maioli, Canevari and Others. [Monographs on Bookbinding]

HOBSON, G.D. Maioli, Canevari and Others. [Monographs on Bookbinding]  Published by Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1926

Quarto, 290mm x 225mm. xvi, 178pp. 6 plates in colour interleaved with tissue paper, 58 plates in monochrome. Publihser’s cloth and dust jacket, teg (dj little warped and frayed at extremities, browning of free endpapers, closed tear to the topof the front free end-paper). 5 chapters of a history of Renaissance bindings by the leading authority. Includes a descriptive catalogue of bindings decorated with Appolo and Pegasus plaquetter. Hobson attempted to prove that these bindings were exectuted at Rome for Pier Luigi Farnese (1503-47), the second son of Alessandro Farnese, later Pope Paul III.