English embossed bindings 1825–50
Auteur :
Jamieson, Eleanore
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521096935
Date de publication :
1 juin 1972
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 0,1 cm
Poids :
200 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
The decorative art of embossed book binding was a small but significant facet of the Gothic Revival. Mrs Jamieson studies the social and technological conditions which made possible the mass-production of handsomely bound books and analyses recurrent motifs and styles of binding of a number of books produced in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.