Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I ON THE RECORDS AND WRITINGS OF THE EARLIEST PEOPLE; THEIR FORM, AND METHOD OF PRESERVATION
- CHAPTER II BOOKS FROM THEIR FIRST KNOWN FORM, AND BOOKBINDING IN THE TIMES OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS
- CHAPTER III MONASTIC AND OTHER BINDINGS UP TO THE INVENTION OF PRINTING
- CHAPTER IV ENGLISH BINDING AND BINDERS, FROM THE INVENTION OP PRINTING TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, MORE PARTICULARLY AS RELATES TO MATERIALS AND FINISH
- CHAPTER V ENGLISH BINDING AND BINDERS, FROM THE INVENTION OF PRINTING TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, IN REFERENCE TO THE STYLES OP WORKMANSHIP, AND SOME OTHER INCIDENTAL PECULIARITIES
- VI FOREIGN BINDING AND BINDERS, FROM THE INVENTION OF PRINTING, TO THE INTRODUCTION OF MODERN BOOKBINDING
- VII MODERN BOOKBINDING
- VIII FOREIGN BINDINGS POSSESSING PECULIARITIES NOT BEFORE DESCRIBED
- IX SKETCHES AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF BINDERS, AMATEUR PROFESSORS, AND OTHERS, CONNECTED WITH THE ART
- INDEX
- Plate section
CHAPTER V - ENGLISH BINDING AND BINDERS, FROM THE INVENTION OF PRINTING TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, IN REFERENCE TO THE STYLES OP WORKMANSHIP, AND SOME OTHER INCIDENTAL PECULIARITIES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I ON THE RECORDS AND WRITINGS OF THE EARLIEST PEOPLE; THEIR FORM, AND METHOD OF PRESERVATION
- CHAPTER II BOOKS FROM THEIR FIRST KNOWN FORM, AND BOOKBINDING IN THE TIMES OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS
- CHAPTER III MONASTIC AND OTHER BINDINGS UP TO THE INVENTION OF PRINTING
- CHAPTER IV ENGLISH BINDING AND BINDERS, FROM THE INVENTION OP PRINTING TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, MORE PARTICULARLY AS RELATES TO MATERIALS AND FINISH
- CHAPTER V ENGLISH BINDING AND BINDERS, FROM THE INVENTION OF PRINTING TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, IN REFERENCE TO THE STYLES OP WORKMANSHIP, AND SOME OTHER INCIDENTAL PECULIARITIES
- VI FOREIGN BINDING AND BINDERS, FROM THE INVENTION OF PRINTING, TO THE INTRODUCTION OF MODERN BOOKBINDING
- VII MODERN BOOKBINDING
- VIII FOREIGN BINDINGS POSSESSING PECULIARITIES NOT BEFORE DESCRIBED
- IX SKETCHES AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF BINDERS, AMATEUR PROFESSORS, AND OTHERS, CONNECTED WITH THE ART
- INDEX
- Plate section
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- An Inquiry into the Nature and Form of the Books of the AncientsWith a History of the Art of Bookbinding, from the Times of the Greeks and Romans to the Present Day, pp. 107 - 128Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1837