Bookbinders at work : their roles and methods / Mirjam M. Foot.

Main entry:

Foot, Mirjam, author.

Title & Author:

Bookbinders at work : their roles and methods / Mirjam M. Foot.

Publication:

London : British Library ; New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press, 2006.

Description:

viii, 163 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Bibliography and bookbinding history -- II. 'Make haste but slowly ... and you will learn our art' : early bookbinding manuals -- III. Decoration -- IV. The economics of the binding trade : costs, prices and wages -- Tables of charges; monetary values -- V. Image and reality.

Summary:

"The role of the bookbinder in the production of saleable books and the significance of the binding in all its details, both structural and decorative, have often been disregarded or marginalised by bibliographers. In this book Dr. Mirjam Foot sets out to reverse the trend; by establishing working binders, and their materials and tools, as an essential part of the production cycle she reveals the inadequacy of bibliographical descriptions that lack essential binding information." "Dr. Foot has based her analysis of the role of the binder (which entails 153 tasks, according to one German authority) on a number of primary sources, manuals and descriptions of bookbinding practice of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, mainly from France, Germany, the Netherlands and Britain. She draws on these manuals, as well as on actual examples of bound books for her many illustrations."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0712349014 (British Library)
9780712349017 (British Library)
1584561688 (Oak Knoll Press)
9781584561682 (Oak Knoll Press)

Subject:

Bookbinding Europe History.
Bookbinding industry Europe History.
Reliure Europe Histoire.
Reliure Industrie Europe Histoire.
Reliure manuelle Europe Histoire.
Bookbinding
Bookbinding industry
Introligatorstwo historia.
Oprawy książkowe historia.
Bookbinding History
Europe

Form/genre:

Works by women England 21st century Specimens.
Printed books England London 21st century Specimens.
Printed books United States Deleware New Castle 21st century Specimens.
History

Added entries:

British Library, publisher.
Oak Knoll Press, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 245559
Call No.: BIB 175183
Status: Available

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