Polska Gazeta Introligatorska : an independent organ devoted to the matters of Polish bookbinding. Annuals IV and V. 1931-32. editor-in-chief. Stanisław Haremza.
P. IV, 176, (3); IV, 184, (2).
Art binding by Mark Hoffman, signed on back cover: "INTR. M. HOFFMAN 2009." Full leather richly embossed and gilded. Spine divided into 4 fields, separated by blind embossed and gilt decorations. Owner's initials ("LK") on spine. On the front embossed and gilded composition of the gilded title of the magazine and the dates of the year; in the central part 4 rows of blind and gilded decorations. Composition also repeated on the back cover. Wrappers of decorative marbled paper. Leather scissoring.
Preserved original brochure covers in most issues.
On the front pastedown an ex-libris of Lech Kokociński. Gentle rubbing of leather at margins. Re-positioning of 2 pages. Minor tears. Loss of corner of rear cover broch.
Yearbook IV and V of the Polish Bookbinding Gazette. Includes:
Yearbook IV: A survey of the vocabulary of the bookbinding profession; Cardboard fabrication; Bookbinding as a woman's profession; Paper marbling; On bookbinding (Aleks. Semkowicz); First national convention of bookbinders; Samuel Tyszkiewicz in Poland; Designing bindings; Ball at the "Section of Bookbinders" in Warsaw.
Yearbook V: Overbinding fonts; Bonawentura Lenart's bookbinding craftsmanship; Historical development of bookbinding; The cartel that harms bookbinding (art. by A. Semkowicz); Parchment and its processing; Polish Renaissance bindings; Golden feast in Lvov bookbinding; Lvov Ossolineum; Holiday demon in bookbinding.
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