HUMANISTS AND BOOKBINDERS, THE ORIGINS AND DIFFUSION OF THE HUMANISTIC BOOKBINDING 1459-1559 WITH A CENSUS OF HISTORIATED PLAQUETTE AND MEDALLION BINDINGS OF THE RENAISSANCE.
New York: Cambridge University Press, (1989). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xix, 296 pages. First edition. Spine of jacket lightly faded, with very tears to edges, else fine. An important new study of north Italian and Parisian bindings which examines the transformation of decorative binding in the later half of the fifteenth century. Successive chapters discuss the influence of Islamic sources; classical sources; coins, medals and plaquettes; etc. Included in the appendices is an interesting article..... READ MORE about HUMANISTS AND BOOKBINDERS, THE ORIGINS AND DIFFUSION OF THE HUMANISTIC BOOKBINDING 1459-1559 WITH...
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