Gold-Tooled Bookbindings / I.G. Philip

Identifier:REF.BB.1259

Dimensions:7 p., [24] p. of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.

Publication dates:1951

Library of Congress Subject Headings:Fine bindings, Bookbinding, Bodleian Library, Gilding, Exhibition catalogs

Description:From introduction: “Gold-tooled bookbindings are those in which the leather or vellum is decorated by impressing patterns with a hot tool on gold leaf, a technique which, probably derived from the Moors, appears to have been in use in Aragon in the first half of the fifteenth century and to have been introduced into Italy through Ferdinand of Aragon, King of Naples…The bindings reproduced in this booklet have been chosen to illustrate some of the many styles of gold-tooling current in Europe up to the eighteenth century, but the choice has been restricted, with one exception, to those bindings which have not previously been published. The present selection may therefore be regarded as a supplement, on a very much more modest scale, to Salt Brassington’s Historic Bindings on the Bodleian Library, 1891, and Strickland Gibson’s Some Notable Bodleian Bindings, 1901-4.” 24 black-and-white full-page plates are included.