Bookbinding Before 1600: A Guide and Hand-list to the Exhibition Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings, 21 February-8 April, 1979 / Paul Needham; Pierpont Morgan Library.

Identifier:REF.EC.0779

Dimensions:20 p. ; 23 cm.

Publication dates:1979

Library of Congress Subject Headings:Bookbinding, Exhibitions

Description:CBA Copy 1. Catalog published in association with an exhibition of historic bookbinding at the Pierpont Morgan Library, "Twelve Centuries of Bookbinding," which aims to illuminate the era of the origins of bookbinding, at the start of the Christian era. Includes an extensive textual introduction by curator Paul Needham, as well as a "Hand-List of the Numbered Exhibits." Although there are no images, an inserted order form has a full-page color image of a historic binding on the back.