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Article: Bookbindings & other bibliophily: essays in honour of Anthony Hobson.
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- Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
- Article date:
- April 1, 1997
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Dennis E. Rhodes, ed. Bookbindings Other Bibliophily: Essays in Honour of Anthony Hobson. Verona: Edizioni Valdonega, 1994. 368 pp.; $125.00 U.S. (cloth). ISBN 88-85033-26-1.
This multilingual collection of essays, with its slightly ungainly title, celebrates the seventieth birthday of A.R.A. (Anthony) Hobson, for many years head of Sotheby's book department in London, and well known as a scholar of bookbinding history. Like his father, G.D. Hobson, Anthony Hobson has made substantial contributions to one of the more recalcitrant subdisciplines of the history of the book, and one notorious for inaccurate scholarship. (It was Paul Needham, I think, who once ...