London and New York: Ernest Benn and Houghton Mifflin Co 1928. First edition, deluxe issue, limited to 50 numbered copies with 50 additional hand-captioned mounted plates at the back of the second volume, out of a total edition of 750 copies. The definitive work on book bindings executed from 1400 to 1600. Of Goldschmidt's work, Hobson states: "This is one of the classics on the subject, extremely readable and based on the author's immense knowledge of the book-trade in the 16th century." - Literature of Bookbinding, p.10; Breslauer calls it "a work of immense learning which has had a lasting influence on binding studies". - The Uses of Bookbinding Literature, p.27. 2 volumes, 4to, with over 200 illustrations in collotype and color, original brown buckram, publisher's slipcases. A very fine copy of this important work, in the original slipcases, which are slightly rubbed.