Uncovering the book
Subtitle: an exhibition in honour of Greta Golick
By: compiled and edited from her research and teaching notes by Marie Elena Korey and David Fernández
Contributors: Korey, Marie Elena, editor; Fernández, David, 1984- editor; Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Publisher: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780772761279
Subjects: Bookbinding; Exhibitions; History; Book covers
Description: "The exhibition, and the accompanying printed catalogue, celebrate book bindings, especially those done before the advent of mechanization when the binding of books was still done by hand. It traces the process of binding from the folding and sewing of printed sheets to its final form book as a book object. It considers the ways in which books reflect their makers, their readers, and their users. This exhibition features the covers or the bindings of books as a reflection of their production and consumption--or, in other words, the material book as witness to its manufacture, use, and survival. Examples come principally from the Fisher collections and they broadly illustrate the processes of their construction and their afterlives in the hands of readers, collectors, and libraries."--
Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library from May 21, 2019 to August 16, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references.

Gift; University of Toronto Libraries; 2019.