English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800: A Handbook - Couverture rigide

Pearson, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 071234828X ISBN 13 : 9780712348287

Editeur : The British Library Publishing Division, 2004

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This new book provides guidance on recognising and dating English bindings of the handpress period. It deals not only with the luxury end of the market (where so many binding studies have concentrated) but rather with the whole spectrum of binding options - the plain and middling as well as the fine. In addition to providing practical help in placing particular bindings within their time and place, the book encourages a new approach to historic bindings, concentrating not so much on binders and workshop attributions as on what a binding can tell us about previous owners and their approach to books. Well illustrated with over 200 photographs, it will be valued by librarians, book historians, booksellers, collectors and anyone who deals with early books.

Revue de presse :

Pearson has written an extremely useful and engaging guide to the idenification and dating of every sort of English bookbinding from the handpress era, and to how they were created diseminated and used. This undertaking is large but he handles it with deftness acquired by long experience with the material. --Art Libraries Journal

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The British Library Publishing Division
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 071234828X
• ISBN 13: 9780712348287
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224