An Introduction to the Art of Basket-Making, by Thomas Okey (1912) [Leather Bound]

by Thomas Okey

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. This book is printed in black & white, Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original edition published long back. As this book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume. Resized as per current standards. We expect that you will understand our compulsion with such books.

180 pages, Leather Bound

First published May 7, 2010

About the author

Thomas Okey (1852 – 1935) was a British expert on basket weaving, a translator of Italian, and a writer on art and the topography of architecture and art works in Italy and France.

In 1919, he became the first Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Cambridge. Okey was a hereditary basket maker from a poor East End of London family,