Title: Victorian publishers' bindings /
Authors: Ball, Douglas.
Date: 1985
Publisher: Library Association,
Physical description: ix, 214, 12 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: Z
Contents: The start of the nineteenth century -- The introduction of cloth -- Binding technology -- The decoration and graining of cloth and its bibliographical importance -- The climate of design -- Development of cover design 1: to 1850 -- Development of cover design 2: from 1850 -- Designer and design -- John Leighton -- Other binding designers: a synopsis -- Publisher and binder -- Binders' signatures and their potential use -- An end ... and a beginning? -- Appendix A: Identification of cloth grains -- Appendix B: Further data on cloth grains -- Appendix C: Papier mache and Relievo bindings -- Appendix D: Cover designs by major designers -- Appendix E: Nineteenth-century edition binders' signatures.
Notes: Includes indexes.
Subject headings (LCSH): Bookbinding, Victorian.; Bookbinding--Great Britain--19th century.; Bookbinding--Great Britain--History--19th century.; Cloth bindings (Bookbinding); Publishers' bindings.