Main entry:

Bearman, Frederick A., author.

Title & Author:

Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library / by Frederick A. Bearman, Nati H. Krivatsy, J. Franklin Mowery ; with an introduction by Anthony Hobson ; photographs by Julie Ainsworth.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : The Folger Shakespeare Library : Harry N. Abrams, Inc., [1992]
©1992

Description:

271 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Notes:
"This volume has been published in conjunction with the exhibition Fine and Historic Bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library on display at the Folger Library, Washington, D.C. February 6 through September 19, 1992"--Title page verso.
"Fine and Historic Bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library is produced in 2500 copies. Typeset in Berkeley Old Style by Barbara Shaw, Bethesda, Maryland. Printed on Potlatch Vintage Velvet (100 lb.) by Stephenson, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia. Bound in Italian Cialux book cloth with Cross Pointe Normandie endpapers by Horowitz/Rae, Fairfield, New Jersey"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-266) and indexes.
Foreword / Werner Gundersheimer -- Introduction / Anthony Hobson -- Catalogue of the bindings. Preface -- 15th-century bindings on incunabula -- English and German bindings, 16th and early 17th centuries -- Bindings from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I -- Panel-stamp and roll decoration, 16th and 17th centuries -- Bindings from the reign of King James I to the Commonwealth -- Bindings from the Restoration -- Vellum bindings, 16th and 17th centuries -- Embroidered and velvet bindings, 16th and 17th centuries -- Five centuries of edge decoration -- Furniture, clasps, and bosses, 15th-18th centuries -- Bindings from the reign of Queen Anne to King George III -- Continental Renaissance and Baroque bindings -- Celebrating Shakespeare in the 20th century -- English 19th- and 20th-century bindings -- American and Continental 19th- and 20th-century bindings -- Two 19th-century forgeries -- Miniature bindings, 17th-20th centuries -- Appendix: Manuscript fragments in the bindings -- Glossary of terms -- Indexes. A. Binders, binderies, and types of bindings ; B. Places of binding ; C. Former owners.

Summary:

"Books are among the most precious of our civilization's achievements, and they have been prized and collected since antiquity. It is no wonder, then, that for centuries the most painstaking care has been taken to bind books with sumptuous, finely worked materials. Now, for the first time, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.--one of the most important repositories of rare books in the United States--presents a selection of its finest bookbindings, from the 15th century to the present."--Book jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0962925411
9780962925412
9780810933125
0810933128

Subject:

Folger Shakespeare Library Exhibitions.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Fine bindings Washington (D.C.) Exhibitions.
Bookbinding History Exhibitions.
Bookbinding Washington (D.C.) Exhibitions.
Exhibitions.
Bookbinding history
Exhibitions as Topic
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
History, Modern 1601-
Rare Books history
Reliures de luxe Washington (D.C.) Expositions.
Reliure Washington (D.C.) Expositions.
Expositions.
Médecine Histoire 1500-
Reliure manuelle Histoire Expositions.
exhibitions (events)
Bookbinding
Fine bindings
Boekbanden.
Washington (D.C.)

Form/genre:

Catalog
Exhibition
exhibition catalogs.
catalogs (documents)
Catalogs
Exhibition catalogs
History
Catalogues d'exposition.
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Krivatsy, Nati, author.
Mowery, John Franklin, author.
Hobson, Anthony, 1921-2014, writer of introduction.
Ainsworth, Julie, photographer.
Folger Shakespeare Library, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 75225
Call No.: ID Z269.B43 REF; ID:92-B2481
Status: Available