English embossed bindings 1825-1850
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English embossed bindings 1825-1850
(Monograph (Cambridge Bibliographical Society), no. 7)
Cambridge University Press, 2009, c1972
- : pbk
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Note
"Re-issued in this digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 94-95
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The decorative art of embossed book binding was a small but significant facet of the Gothic Revival. Mrs Jamieson studies the social and technological conditions which made possible the mass-production of handsomely bound books and analyses recurrent motifs and styles of binding of a number of books produced in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. She gives detailed bibliographical descriptions of sixty-two bindings, twenty-four of which are illustrated. The plates are reproduced by a fine screen letterpress process from rubbings made by the author.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1. The Gothic Background
- 2. Social setting
- 3. Embossing - origins and process
- 4. Styles of embossed bindings
- 5. Embossing machines
- 6. Materials and methods of covering
- Catalogue of embossed bindings
- Appendices
- Select bibliography
- Plates.
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