Author : G. D. Hobson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521137287
Based on The Sandars Lectures for 1927, this beautifully presented 1929 volume provides a historical study of English binding.
Author : Pamela Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1351888137
This selection of papers by major scholars introduces students to the history of the book in the West from late Antiquity to the publication of the Gutenberg Bible and the beginning of the print revolution. The collection opens with wide-ranging papers on handwriting and the physical make-up of the book. In the second group of papers the emphasis is on the ’look’ of the book, complemented by a third group dealing with scribes, readers and the availability of books. The editors’ introduction provides an overview of the medieval book.
Author : Joseph Rosenblum
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 20,92 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810830097
"...skillfully compiled...should be useful to anyone interested in placing his or her studies in the context of printed and bound literature..." --ENGLISH LITERATURE IN TRANSITION 1880-1920
Author : Mirjam M. Foot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351891766
Among the many books in original bindings in Marsh's Library, Dublin, a surprisingly large number are in decorated blind- or gold-tooled, calf, pigskin or goatskin bindings, which date from the 15th to the 19th centuries. The bindings come from all over Europe, ranging from Ireland to eastern Europe. While most were made in England, some fine and interesting examples from Germany, Italy, France, Spain and Holland are also included. In this volume, leading scholar Mirjam Foot first gives an overview of how books were bound by hand and then describes the bindings by country of origin, within each section treating them chronologically and by type of decoration. The detailed descriptions of the bindings are illustrated with 52 black and white photos and 8 colour plates.
Author : Alexandra Gillespie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316102122
Between roughly 1350 and 1500, the English vernacular became established as a language of literary, bureaucratic, devotional and controversial writing; metropolitan artisans formed guilds for the production and sale of books for the first time; and Gutenberg's and eventually Caxton's printed books reached their first English consumers. This book gathers the best work on manuscript books in England made during this crucial but neglected period. Its authors survey existing research, gather intensive new evidence and develop new approaches to key topics. The chapters cover the material conditions and economy of the book trade; amateur production both lay and religious; the effects of censorship; and the impact on English book production of manuscripts and artisans from elsewhere in the British Isles and Europe. A wide-ranging and innovative series of essays, this volume is a major contribution to the history of the book in medieval England.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1162 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Bookbinding
ISBN :
Author : Howard M. Nixon
Publisher : Oxford [England] ; Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :
Based on the Lyell Lectures given by Howard Nixon at Oxford in 1979, this lavishly illustrated book traces the decorated binding in England from the earliest surviving example, the St Cuthbert Gospel dating from a little before the end of the seventh century, to the beginning of the Modern Movement in the late 1940s. This books emphasis is on fine binding in leather, with the styles and designs used for its decoration, and with the tools employed to effect these designs. This work is the first to trace comprehensively the development of this English tradition and bring together numerous illustrations of the superb bindings produced over the last eight centuries.
Author : Andrew G. Watson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1000946657
Two themes uniting the essays in this collection are the provenance and history of medieval manuscripts during the Middle Ages, and the fates that befell them in England in the period after the invention of printing and the 16th-century dissolution of the religious houses and visitations of the universities. The section 'Libraries and collectors' includes papers on seven major English collectors of the 16th and 17th centuries, and the section 'Manuscripts' concerns the fates of five manuscripts or groups of manuscripts from England, Belgium and Italy. Of the other chapters one is concerned with the post-medieval history of the library of All Souls College, Oxford, and another with the provenance of hundreds of manuscripts in the Harleian collection in the British Library. For this volume Andrew Watson has provided extensive additional notes and indexes.
Author : Edith Diehl
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0486156141
Mammoth volume by one of the world's foremost practitioners. Both historical survey emphasizing decorated bindings, and eminently practical guide to hand bookbinding. 93 plates, 242 figures.
Author : Vincent Gillespie
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1843843633
First full-scale guide to the origins and development of the early printed book, and the issues associated with it.
