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Great Binders : Robert Riviere Bindery
Robert Rivière Robert Rivière was born in 1808 into an artistic family in London, England. While his siblings preferred painting and singing, Robert became apprenticed to booksellers after he graduated from academy in 1824. In 1829 he established himself in Bath as a bookseller with a side business in binding. All of that changed when he moved to London and established his business as a bookbinder. The Rivière Bindery saw great success in London’s West End from 1840 onwards. Collectors sought him out for his high quality and attention to detail, and he was commissioned to bind books for Queen Victoria and the royal family....
Great Binders : George Bayntun Bindery
Charles Edwin George Bayntun, more commonly known as George Bayntun (4 August 1873 – 4 September 1940) was an English bookseller, bookbinder, and collector.George Bayntun was born Charles Edwin George Bayntun on 4 August 1873 Bath, Somerset, England to Constantia Amelia Bayntun (1836–1921) and an unknown father. He was a grandson of Wilmot Robert Bayntun Power or Bayntun (1801–1889), who was in turn an illegitimate son of Sir Andrew Bayntun-Rolt, 2nd Baronet (cir 1740–1816).Bayntun served a book-binding apprenticeship before starting his own book-binding business in Northumberland Place in 1894.He took on a number of London binders in order to raise...
First Edition Identification : Emile Nelligan et son Oeuvre
The first edition of this work was published in 1903 with the mention "Montreal 1903" on title page. While Nelligan's father did not approve of Nelligan’s devotion to poetry...
First Edition Identification : Fairies of the Flowers & Trees
The first edition of this omnibus was published in London and Glasgow by Blackie & Son ...
First Edition Identification : Winnie-The-Pooh
True first edition copies of Winnie-the-Pooh have green cloth binding with E. H. Shepard’s illustrations of Pooh and Christopher Robin ...