Main entry:

Annual Conference on Book Trade History (31st : 2009 : Bloomsbury, London, England)

Title & Author:

Publishing the fine and applied arts, 1500-2000 / edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote.

Publication:

London : The British Library ; New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press, 2012.

Description:

xv, 194 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Series:

Publishing pathways

Notes:
"All but one of the essays in this collection are based on papers given at the 31st annual conference on book trade history, held at the Foundling Museum in Brunswick Square, Bloomsbury, on 29 and 30 November 2009"--Acknowledgements.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
It's pretty, but is it art? / Mirjam Foot -- Metal-cut border ornaments in Parisian-printed books of hours as design sources for sixteenth-century English works of art / Malcolm Jones -- Publishing Palladio in England, 1650-1750 / Charles Hind -- The young-mans time well spent : learning to draw from a master / Meghan Doherty -- Building a library : evidence from Sir John Soane's archive / Susan Palmer -- Colour printing and design reform : Owen Jones and the birth of chromolithography / Abraham Thomas -- Art publishing and the leisure market, from the 1840s to the 1870s / Rowan Watson -- The art collector and the catalogue from the early 1620s to the early 2000s / Charles Sebag-Montefiore.

Summary:

"Illustrated collection of eight essays examining the relationship between print and art from the sixteenth through the twentieth century. Explores the role of the book trade in the dissemination of artistic theory, fashion, and practice, and the influence of aesthetic trends on book design. Part of the Publishing Pathways series"--Provided by publisher.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9781584562993
1584562994
9780712358477 (British Library)
0712358471 (British Library)

Subject:

Art publishing Europe History Congresses.
Illustration of books Europe History Congresses.
Book industries and trade Europe History Congresses.
Art Édition Europe Histoire Congrès.
llustration des livres Europe Histoire Congrès.
Livres Industrie Europe Histoire Congrès.
Illustration des livres Europe Histoire Congrès.
Art publishing
Book industries and trade
Illustration of books
Kunstbuch
Künstlerisches Motiv
Architektur
Fachliteratur
Ästhetik
Buch
Kunst
Illustration of books Europe History.
Book industries and trade Europe History.
Europe

Form/genre:

Conference publications.
Conference papers and proceedings
History

Added entries:

Myers, Robin.
Harris, Michael, 1938-
Mandelbrote, Giles.
Publishing pathways.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 279265
Call No.: BIB 215256
Status: Available