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| An Oxford Restoration Binding |
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| Brilliant Italian Renaissance binding by this unrecorded workshop, ca. 1540: set of four volumes |
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| An Edinburgh binding with gold-tooled Hearts |
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| Another Edinburgh binding with gold-tooled Hearts |
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| A "gothic" publisher's binding on Alphonse Mucha's first illustrated book, 1897 |
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| A German Renaissance binding with all catches and clasps - Wittenberg, 1554 |
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| A mint copy in original publisher's drab boards, from the famed Killymoon Castle Library, 1819 |
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| A cuir-cisile Macabre binding by Pfister: Holbein's Dance of Death, 1897, printed on Japanese Vellum |
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Michael Laird is recognized as an authority on the history of bookbinding, from the medieval to the modern era; he has published
articles on the history of bookbinding in international scholarly journals.
Every binding we acquire has been meticulously researched and authenticated by Michael Laird. Recent acquisitions and
sales include important 16th-century bindings by Anton Ludwig and the Venetian "Fugger Binder," English Restoration bindings
by Richard Sedgley of Cambridge and Richard Bailey of Oxford, and a superb example by Marius Michel, who is viewed by some
as representing the apogee of modern French fine binding.
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| An imposing American binding in near-mint condition, 1881 |
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| Early American publisher's drab boards, 1827 |
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| An Art Nouveau Publisher's binding (Snow White, 1900) |
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| A Jewish publisher's binding |
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| Bound in the workshop of Albert Magnus - Amsterdam, ca. 1697 |
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| Bound by Claudes de Picques, the Royal Binder Paris, 1560 |
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| A binding by Katherine Adams for St. John Hornby, proprietor of the Ashendine Press |
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| Rare children's Library Lists in original printed wrappers with silk tassel cords: unused and mint |
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