Contemporary Designer Bookbindings : Europe & Australia / Ross Clendinning, ed.

Identifier:REF.EC.1383

Dimensions:48 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ports. ; 30 cm.

Copyright dates:1984

Library of Congress Subject Headings:Bookbinding

Description:Exhibition catalog for 'Contemporary Design Bookbindings -- Europe and Australia'. "This exhibition of fine bindings suggests the unprecedented variety of creative experiments which have occurred since Pierre Legrain introduced modern design to the book cover immediately after the First World War...The primary function of a fine binding is to ensure that the book will survive efficiently for several hundred years before it requires repair or restoration -- which is also a very important bookbinding craft in which many of the exhibitors are equally proficient. Several are world authorities. The decoration of the cover is a bonus, a unique addition of beauty and celebration, which 'for love' may add extra care to the binding. Today it is also a personal creative expression." -- from Introduction Contents: Preface -- Introduction by Edgar Mansfield -- The Development of Bookbinding Techniques by Bernard Middleton -- Glossary of Terms -- France by Claude Blaizot -- France Exhibition Entries -- England by Trevor Jones -- England Exhibition Entries -- Switzerland by Hugo Peller -- Switzerland Exhibition Entries -- Cameo Australia -- Australia Exhibition Entries -- Hugo Peller -- Phillip Smith by Colin Franklin -- Sunevrard -- The Book: Comparative Forms and Creative Acts by Ivor Robinson -- Bibliography by Edgar Mansfield -- Acknowledgements