MIDDLETON, Bernard. ~ You Can Judge a Book by Its Cover: A Brief Survey of Materials.
Edited by David Pankow. One of 500 copies, this no.403, signed by all the participants - Bernard Middleton, author, Ward Ritchie, designer, Henry Morris, printer, Mel Kavin, publisher, Tini and Einen Miura, designer of the binding and the endpapers respectively, John de Pol, illustrator. A miniature book, 7 x 6.1 cms, bound to a design by Tini Miura at the Kater-Crafts Bookbinders in full black morocco with red, blue and gilt inlays and onlays, tooled with green and blue dots, marbled endpapers by Einen Miura, housed in the original black cloth box with black morocco spine and red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. In fine condition.
A charming publication with Bernard Middleton’s text about book binding accompanied with de Pol’s charming illustrations, beautifully designed by Ward Ritchie and printed by Henry Morris with Tini Miura’s designed binding. Thoughtfully the publisher has given some excellent little biographies of all the participants as well as the story of how the book came into being. A thoroughly satisfying miniature book.