Title
Book Cloth by the Winterbottom Book Cloth Co., Ltd.
Coverage
Manchester:
Publisher
Winterbottom Book Cloth Co.,
Date
ca. 1935.
Subject
Gift of Dorothy Tomlinson.
Description
The Winterbottom Book Cloth Company, founded in 1891, dominated the bookcloth trade in the United Kingdom and United States, as well as Germany, for much of the 20th century before closing in 1980. This 1935 pattern book provides samples of the different shades, qualities, and designs (or “grains”) of bookcloth available through Winterbottom. The pattern books are now very scarce, because Winterbottom required that clients return them to the firm before being issued a new one.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School