History of Decorated Bookbinding in England

Name: History of Decorated Bookbinding in England
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ISBN: 9780198181828

ISBN-10: 0198181825

ISBN-13: 9780198181828

Edition: 1992 (Revised)

Authors: Howard Millar Nixon, Mirjam M. Foot

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Based on the Lyell Lectures given by Howard Nixon at Oxford in 1979, this lavishly illustrated book traces the decorated binding in England from the earliest surviving example, the St Cuthbert Gospel dating from a little before the end of the seventh century, to the beginning of the Modern Movement in the late 1940s. This books emphasis is on fine binding in leather, with the styles and designs used for its decoration, and with the tools employed to effect these designs. This work is the first to trace comprehensively the development of this English tradition and bring together numerous illustrations of the superb bindings produced over the last eight centuries.

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/23/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English

List of Colour Plates
List of Figures
From the Beginning to 1520	p. 1
Gold-Tooled Sixteenth-Century Bindings	p. 25
The First Sixty Years of the Seventeenth Century	p. 43
The Restoration Period	p. 62
The Eighteenth Century	p. 80
From 1898 until the Beginning of the Modern Movement	p. 98
Index	p. 115
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