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ELOQUENT WITNESSES, BOOKBINDINGS AND THEIR HISTORY
Foot, Mirjam M. (editor)

- New Castle and London : Oak Knoll Press, The Bibliographical Society and The British Library 2004 - large 8vo. - cloth, dust jacket. - 328 pages. - ISBN 9781584561170 ; 1584561173 / Order Nr. 76293 - Price: $ 65.00 View Excerpt View Table of Contents View Reviews

First edition. This work is a collection of well-written essays that demonstrates the change in direction the study of bookbinding has taken. Much of the work is based on observation of bookbinding techniques and materials, as well as a close study of decorative tools and the ways in which these were used to reflect the styles and fashions of their day.
The place of the binder in the whole network of the book trade is also discussed against the wider cultural and political background in which books, as vehicles that carried ideas forward, are the visible, creditable and eloquent witnesses. This volume of essays is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Phiroze Randeria.
Contributors to the book include Giles Barber, Carmen Blacker, Christian Coppens, Mirjam Foot, David Pearson, Nicholas Pickwoad, Nicholas Poole-Wilson, Esther Potter, Jan Storm van Leeuwen and Marianne Tidcombe. With 101 black-and-white and 8 color plate pages. Co-published with The Bibliographical Society and The British Library.

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