Main entry:

Pearson, David, 1955-

Title & Author:

English bookbinding styles, 1450-1800 : a handbook / David Pearson.

Publication:

London : British Library ; New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press, 2005.

Description:

xii, 221 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-203) and index.
Introduction : the purpose of this book -- The meaning and interpretation of bookbindings -- Materials and construction techniques -- Decorative styles on permanent bindings : covers -- Decorative styles on permanent bindings : spines and edges -- Tool shapes : stylistic development over time -- Cheap and temporary bookbindings -- Bookbinders and the book trade -- Appendices : I. Diagrammatic summary of the chronological progression of binding styles -- II. Snapshots of typical binding styles, of different quality, at fifty-year intervals -- III. Describing and recording bookbindings -- IV. Identifying individual tools and workshops.

Summary:

"This new book provides guidance on recognising and dating English bindings of the handpress period, from the middle of the fifteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth. During this time, bookbinding was a handcrafted process and every binding made, however ordinary by the standards of its day, was a unique artefact. English Bookbinding Styles deals not only with the luxury end of the market (where so many binding studies have concentrated) but with the whole spectrum of binding options, the cheap and temporary with the permanent, 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 250 photographs, the book fills a long-recognised gap in the literature and will be valued by librarians, book historians, booksellers, collectors, and anyone who deals with early books."--Jacket.

ISBN:

071234828X (British Library)
9780712348287 (British Library)
1584561408 (Oak Knoll Press)
9781584561408 (Oak Knoll Press)

Subject:

Bookbinding England History.
Medicine History 17th century.
Medicine History 18th century.
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
History, 17th Century
History, 18th Century
Médecine Histoire 17e siècle.
Médecine Histoire 18e siècle.
Reliure manuelle Angleterre Histoire.
Bookbinding England.
Medicine
Bookbinding
Bucheinband
Boekbanden.
Oprawy książkowe Wielka Brytania 15-18 w.
Enquadernació Gran Bretanya Història.
Enquadernació Manuals.
England

Form/genre:

Printed books England London 21st century Specimens.
Printed books United States Delaware New Castle 21st century Specimens.
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 236418
Call No.: BIB 166253
Status: Available