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FOR THE LOVE OF THE BINDING: STUDIES IN HISTORICAL BOOKBINDING PRESENTED TO MIRJAM FOOT.
Pearson, David

- New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press 2000 - small 4to. - cloth, dust jacket. - ISBN: 1-58456-035-5, 392 pages with 220 b/w illustrations. - ISBN 9781584560357 ; 1584560355 / Order Nr. 60869 - Price: $ 135.00 View Excerpt View Table of Contents

First edition. Twenty-six of the world's most prestigious bookbinding experts have contributed essays reflecting Mirjam Foot's own research interests, particularly the placement of bindings in their historical context. A sample list of subjects and authors in the book are: "The Mysterious Mr. de Sauty" by Marianne Tidcombe; "Some unrecorded sixteenth-century French bookbindings" by Nicolas Barker; "Ticketed Bindings - a hundred years of European bookbinding" by Nicholas Pickwoad; "The Keatley Trust Collection of modern British Bindings" by Dorothy A. Harrop; "John Wittaker's edition of the Magna Carta, its printing, and his bindings on the Wormsley copies" by Bryan Maggs. Other authors include Anthony Hobson, Lotte Hellinga, David Pearson, Robin Myers, and more. SALES RIGHTS: Available in North & South America from Oak Knoll Books. Available outside North & South America from The British Library.

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