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.
Price: $150.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 28120
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 on Jean Grolier's binders and the use of pasteboard in binding. Well illustrated. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included.