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 ...