Remarkable Bindings in the British Museum - Selected for Their Beauty Or Historic Interest

Klappentext A beautifully illustrated work on the history of bookbinding, chiefly in the British Museum library, first published in 1889. Zusammenfassung Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838–1917) was a prolific writer on bibliography, literature and the arts. These two works, published in the 1880s, provide an illustrated history of fine English and continental bookbindings, and discuss them from both an artistic and practical viewpoint. He includes examples notable for beauty or historic significance. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Bindings in ivory, metal, enamel, painting; 2. Bindings in leather; 3. Bindings in embroidered silk and velvet; 4. Italian and German bindings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; 5. French bindings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; 6. English bindings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; 7. English and French bindings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Early history of bookbinding; Binding in Germany and the Netherlands; Binding in Italy; Binding in France; Binding in England; Binding as a fine art; Binding as a mechanical art; Binding as a manufacture; Practical points connected with binding; Appendix; Discussion; Catalogue of specimens of binding lent for exhibition; List of engravings.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Benjamin Wheatley
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.10.2010
• EAN: 9781108021517
• ISBN: 978-1-108-02151-7
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Decorative arts, DESIGN / Decorative Arts