Eloquent witnesses
Subtitle: bookbindings and their history
By: edited by Mirjam M. Foot.
Contributors: Randeria, Phiroze, d. 2001.; Foot, Mirjam.; Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher: Bibliographical Society; British Library; Oak Knoll Press; The Bibliographical Society
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New Castle, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Bookbinding -- History.
Description: "This collection of essays - edited and in many cases expanded versions of lectures delivered over a dozen years - demonstrates the change in direction the study of bookbinding history has taken. Much of the work published here is based on minute observation of details of structure, techniques and materials, as well as on close study of decorative tools and the ways in which these were used to achieve the many splendid designs that reflect the styles and fashions of their day."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A volume of essays dedicated to the memory of Dr. Phiroze Randeria."
Table of contents: title: Bookbinding research : pitfalls, possibilities and needs / Mirjam M. Foot; title: Bookbindings, their depictions, their owners and their contents / Jan Storm van Leeuwen; title: The prize is the proof : four centuries of prize books / Christian Coppens; title: English centre-piece bookbindings, 1560-1640 / David Pearson; title: The interpretation of bookbinding structure : an examination of sixteenth century bindings in the Ramey collection in the Pierpoint Morgan Library / Nicholas Pickwoad; title: Around the Padeloup and Derome workshops : gold-tooled Parisian bindings of the eighteenth century / Giles Barber; title: "A magnificent and bewildering variety" : Irish bookbinding in the eighteenth century / Mirjam M. Foot; title: Benjamin West, 1805-1883 / Esther Potter; title: Collector, dealer and forger : a fragment of nineteenth century binding history / Mirjam M. Foot, Carmen Blacker & Nicholas Poole-Wilson; title: Womem bookbinders in Britain before the First World War / Marianne Tidcombe.