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Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings 400-1600 by Needham, Paul - 1979

Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings 400-1600

by Needham, Paul

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New York/London, The Piermont Morgan Library/Oxford University Press, 1979. Hardcover. Good. Some tears dust jacket repaired. Foxed on cut.
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  • ISBN 10 0192115804
  • ISBN 13 9780192115805
  • Publisher New York/London, The Piermont Morgan Library/Oxford University Press
  • Date Published 1979
  • Pages 338
  • Keywords Boekdrukkunst, Boeken, Boekdrukkunst & Boeken

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New York: Morgan Library and Oxford University Press, 1979. Book. Illus. by tipped in color frontispiece and numerous black/white full page bindings. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A fine copy with no edgewear, printed by the esteemed Steinhour Press in Vermont. .
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by Needham, P. ; Pierpont Morgan Library

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Pierpont Morgan Library, New York/ Oxford University Press, London, first edition, 1979. Cloth, leather spine-label, 4to, 32 cm,. xxvii, 338 pp, plates (7 in colour). An appealing catalogue of one hundred bookbindings from the Pierpont Morgan Library dating from the 5th to the 16th centuries and arranged chronologically to chart the development of styles and techniques. The catalogue includes four Coptic bindings of the fifth to tenth centuries, ten medieval treasure bindings of the early ninth to twelfth centuries and later leather bindings from the Middle East and Europe. Each entry is fully described and accompanied by a full-page illustration, with seven of the plates in colour ( a Coptic binding, four jewelled book covers, the odd Roman-French (?) tracery binding made for Henri II on the vellum MS. of Giovanni délia Casa's De potentium ac tenuium inter se officiis and a handsome Parisian Greek style binding made for Marcus Fugger). Three essays cover (1) the emergence of the codex… Read More
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New York & London: The Pierpont Morgan Library and Oxford University Press, 1979. Hardback. Approx. 310mm x 230mm. xxvii, 338pp. Publisher's original red cloth binding with contrasting black panel to spine printed gilt. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. This book traces the history of bookbinding, form its beginnings to the end of the sixteenth century, through detailed consideration of one hundred important examples in The Pierpont Morgan Library. An introductory essay discusses the origin of the craft in the early Christian centuries; another discusses the mediaeval ecclesiastical tradition of "treasure" bindings, bookcovers of gold, silver, ivory, gems, enamel and other precious materials; a third surveys the development of leather bindings in early mediaeval Europe. Included are a group of important Coptic bindings, one of which is among the earliest intact bindings to have survived; ten mediaeval treasure bindings; and an extensive series of late fifteenth and… Read More
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by Paul Needham

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Pierpoint Morgan Library, 1979. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Fine copy First Edition In Soft Paper . Excellent Reference on Fine Bindings..
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Pierpont Morgan Library, New York/ Oxford University Press, London, first edition, 1979. Cloth, leather spine-label, 4to, 32 cm,. xxvii, 338 pp, plates (7 in colour). An appealing catalogue of one hundred bookbindings from the Pierpont Morgan Library dating from the 5th to the 16th centuries and arranged chronologically to chart the development of styles and techniques. The catalogue includes four Coptic bindings of the fifth to tenth centuries, ten medieval treasure bindings of the early ninth to twelfth centuries and later leather bindings from the Middle East and Europe. Each entry is fully described and accompanied by a full-page illustration, with seven of the plates in colour ( a Coptic binding, four jewelled book covers, the odd Roman-French (?) tracery binding made for Henri II on the vellum MS. of Giovanni délia Casa's De potentium ac tenuium inter se officiis and a handsome Parisian Greek style binding made for Marcus Fugger). Three essays cover (1) the emergence of the codex… Read More
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Twelve centuries of bookbindings, 400-1600

by Needham, Paul

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New York : Pierpont Morgan Library : Oxford University Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xxvii, 338 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm. Subjects: Bookbinding, Medieval History. Bookbinding, Renaissance History. Books Europe History 400-1450. Books Europe History 1450-1600. Genre: History. Language: English.
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