Designer Bookbinders / Designer Bookbinders

Identifier:REF.BB.0709

Creation dates:1973

Creation dates:1974

Creation dates:1975

Creation dates:1976

Creation dates:1977

Creation dates:1978

Creation dates:1979

Creation dates:1972

Creation dates:1969

Creation dates:1980

Library of Congress Subject Headings:Bookbinding

Description:Four-flap box enclosure containing various material created and/or published by Designer Bookbinders, a bookbinding society in the United Kingdom. The following contents are included in the box: Designer Bookbinders Review no. 1, Spring 1973 Designer Bookbinders Review no. 2, Autumn 1973 Designer Bookbinders Review no. 3, Spring 1974 Designer Bookbinders Review no. 4, Autumn 1974 Designer Bookbinders Review no. 5, Spring 1975 Designer Bookbinders Review no. 6, Autumn 1975 Designer Bookbinders Review no. 8, Autumn 1976 Designer Bookbinders Review no. 9, Spring 1977 Designer Bookbinders Review no. 10, Autumn 1977 Designer Bookbinders Review no. 11, Spring 1978 Designer Bookbinders Review no. 12, Autumn 1978 Designer Bookbinders Review no. 13, Spring 1979 An exhibition of fine bookbindings by members of Designer Bookbinders : 14 March-30 March 1973 ... Hatchards Bookshop Piccadilly London Exhibition of Entries for the Bookbinding Competition, 1978 Designer Bookbinders 1974. Published by the Crafts Advisory committee, 12 Waterloo Place, London SW1, in connection with the exhibition at their Waterloo Place Gallery, July 2nd to 31st 1974 and at the Edinburgh University Library, August 22nd to September 27th 1974 Designer Bookbinders (catalogue) Designer Bookbinders 2 (catalogue) A small collection of ephemeral archival material including Designer Bookbinders meeting minutes, pamphlets, newsletters and other material related to the group's formal organizational structure. Designer Bookbinders Review was started in 1973 and published twice yearly, ending with Number 14 in 1979. It was replaced in 1981 by "The New Bookbinder" in a larger format and with more color and illustration. Both publications were meant to distribute high quality information to members of the Guild of Contemporary Bookbinders, later renamed Designer Bookbinders. Members of Designer Bookbinders were later called "Fellows" and created several hierarchies of membership to increase the quality and guidance of bookbinding design. (http://www.designerbookbinders.org.uk/) About Designer Bookbinders: "The originators of this Guild - now very famous names in the world of bookbinding - Arthur Johnson, Edgar Mansfield, Trevor Jones, Arthur Last and Bernard Middleton produced work which extended boundaries and gradually transformed the art of the hand bound book. They did not appear from nowhere however, and the influence of figures like Cobden-Sanderson and Douglas Cockerell in terms of sound structures and integrity of design was always apparent." -Designer Bookbinders