Beautiful Bookbindings a Thousand Years of the Bookbinders Art
Beautiful Bookbindings: A Thousand Years of the Bookbinder'south Art
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London and New Castle, DE: The British Library; Oak Knoll Press, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. New. 192pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Dark plum-colored cloth-effect paper over boards. Decorative floral endpapers. In the pictorial dust jacket. From the Publisher- "As a craft of more than two,000 years, the art of bookbinding has been overlooked in history. Primarily seen for its practical purpose of protecting the pages of a book, it is sometimes hard to recognize the creative aspects of a bookbinding. Cute Bookbindings hopes to bring to calorie-free this creative style of thinking by displaying the finest bookbindings every bit the objects of desire they were originally intended to exist. As the keen aesthete Oscar Wilde believed, bookbindings are beautiful and artistic in their own wonder.
Because covering materials are decumbent to fading and deterioration, relatively few examples of early on bookbindings have survived. In more recent times, the number of surviving examples has increased due to deliberate efforts to preserve ornate bindings. Despite the difficulty in preserving bindings, this volume pieces together the history of bookbinding, using written sources where necessary to fill the gaps that the bindings themselves do not fill.
From exquisite medieval bookbindings made of precious metals and jewels to the unique and highly imaginative creations of contemporary bookbinders, this volume celebrates over 100 of the nearly cute bookbindings of the last 1,000 years. Books bound past some of the greatest bookbinders including Mearne, Padeloup, Payne, Simier, Cobden-Sanderson, and others are showcased, further revealing the beauty and skill of this art grade. Fully illustrated in color, with specially deputed studio photography, Beautiful Bookbindings provides a visual overview of the evolution of this splendid art form. The volume focuses on the craft of hand-bookbinding that existed until the Victorian era when mass-produced trade bindings took over. Bookbinding equally a craft form never disappeared, however, and the second one-half of the twentieth century saw a significant revival.
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