A matter of taste
Subtitle: discrimination in nineteenth-century book collecting : catalogue of an exhibition of rare books from the John Carter Brown Library
By: Susan Danforth ; photographs by Richard Hurley
Contributors: Hurley, Richard N.; John Carter Brown Library
Publisher: Published for the Associates of the John Carter Brown Library
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Providence, R.I
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
ISBN-13: 9780916617677
Subjects: Book collecting; Exhibitions; Rare books
Other titles: Discrimination in nineteenth-century book collecting
Notes: "1,000 copies for The John Carter Brown Library May 2008"--Colophon.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Philip Maddock; title: Preface / by Ted Widmer; title: Introduction / by Susan Danforth; title: Identification: Book brands ; Ink stamps ; Binding stamps ; Bookplates; title: Binding: Binding in the French style ; Binding in the English style ; Seventeenth-century American binding ; Fifteenth-century German binding ; Chained binding ; "It is, after all, a matter of taste"; title: Restoration: Pen and ink facsimiles ; Paper repair ; "Trading up" ; Sophistication ; "I think it best not to tamper with it"; title: Replication: Pen and ink facsimiles ; The usual situation, reversed; title: Collecting the Voyages of Theodor de Bry: Large and small ; "Endless" variation ; The discussion continues ; "It would still be but an imitation" ; Washing and dry cleaning; title: Collecting the Aldine Press: Make haste slowly ; Creative counterfeits; title: Fore-edge painting.