A few books for Andy

[Daniel]

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[AndyD]

Interesting.
I reckon that the third book from 1759 may have a newer external binding over the original boards&book, maybe done late Victorian/Edwardian or in that style. It is beautiful, with the gold edges to make dusting easy.

[AndyD]

Incidentally, another thing I've never seen before... this folio size deluxe edition book was in our National Gallery bookshop:
https://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/hiroshige-deluxe-edition.html
I didn't buy it, so no easy to see & understand photo, my best description:
When opened I thought the pages had not been trimmed/guillotined properly.

In order to ensure the 150 colour prints were perfect and unaffected by anything on the reverse of the sheet, only one side was printed, the reverse remaining white, and every two pages were left joined.
So only printed on the outer side of the paper loop and therefore you turned two sheets at a time. The pagination was normal though.

(A bit like PhD's which are printed one side of the paper sheet only.)