English bookbinding styles, 1450-1800 : a handbook /
"This second printing of David Pearson's English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800 includes a new introduction and a number of additional references and relevant points that have come to light since the book was first published in 2005."--Publisher's web site.
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New Castle, DE :
Oak Knoll Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the purpose of this book
- Historic bookbindings : key points
- Summary of common terminology used in describing decorative features
- I. The meaning and interpretation of bookbindings
- II. Materials and construction techniques
- III. Decorative styles on permanent bindings : covers
- IV. Decorative styles on permanent bindings : spines and edges
- V. Tool shapes : stylistic development over time
- VI. Cheap and temporary bookbindings
- VII. Bookbinders and the book trade
- App. I. Diagrammatic summary of the chronological progression of binding styles
- App. II. Snapshots of typical binding styles, of different quality, at fifty-year intervals
- App. III. Describing and recording bookbindings
- App. IV. Identifying individual tools and workshops.