Book Description
The work of G. D. Hobson on the history of bookbinding, in particular English medieval and Renaissance bindings, is well known. His studies on Romanesque English bookbinding marked a pioneer effort to trace the development of the art of binding in early medieval England, and remain the fundamental introduction to the subject. Similarly, his celebrated study of blind-stamped panels in the English Renaissance book-trade has become a classic. The author’s interests also extended to French bindings, and his work on Parisian bookbinding in the first quarter of the sixteenth century is of great importance; it is reprinted here with a number of his other studies on Grolier bindings.
The collection of these articles in one volume, with an introduction by A.R.A. Hobson, represents not only a valuable introduction to the work of one of the major authorities on English bookbinding, but also a compendium of some of the most outstanding contributions to the subject.
Contents
- Preface
- Some early binders and binders’ tools
- A newly discovered Romanesque binding
- Trois relieures romanes
- Further notes on Romanesque bindings
- Further notes on the binding of the Hayes manuscript
- Parisian binding, 1500-1525
- Une relieure aux armes d’Henri III a la Bibliothèque Nationale
- Zwei Einbande in der Preussischen Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
- Ein Einband in der Universitätsbibliothek zu Cambridge
- Weiland Dr. Theodor Gottlieb und seine “Grolierstudien”
- An Italian binding of Paolo Guardano
- Blind-stamped panels in the English book-trade
- Bindings of Thomas Wotton
- An early seventeenth-century Scottish binding
- A seventeenth-century monogram on the bindings of James II
- Et amicorum
- Bibliography
- Index
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