Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Foot, Mirjam
Title:
Studies in the history of bookbinding / Mirjam M. Foot.
Published / Created:
Aldershot, England ; Brookfield, Vermont, USA : Ashgate Publishing Company, [1993]

©1993
Physical Description:
xv, 467 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Pt. I. Why Bookbinding? 1. Bookbinding and the History of Books. 2. Some Bookbinders' Price Lists of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Pt. II. Bookbinding: A Dead Craft? 3. A Binding by Paul Kersten, 1900. 4. A Binding by W. T. Walker, 1909. 5. The Thomas Harrison Memorial Competition, 1955-1975: A Record. 6. Modern Bookbindings Acquired by the British Library, 1974-1983. 7. A Binding by Pierre-Lucien Martin, 1961 -- Pt. III. The Late Medieval Tradition in Bookbinding. 8. English Decorated Bookbindings of the Fifteenth Century. 9. A Binding by the Scales Binder, 1456-65. 10. An Oxford Binding, c. 1480. 11. A Binding by the Crucifer Binder, c. 1505. 12. Monasteries and Dragons.
Subject Terms:
Bookbinding -- Europe -- History. | Bookbinding. | Europe. | Bookbinding -- History.
Form/Genre:
History.