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ABC of Bookbinding: A Unique Glossary with over 700 Illustrations for Collectors and Librarians / Jane Greenfield
Books
REF.TD.1936
xi, 183 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
1998
Book collecting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc., bookbinding, dictionaries, glossaries, picture dictionaries, technical dictionaries
An illustrated glossary of book arts terms for book collectors and librarians.
Reprint of the first edition of 1997. For the first time, Jane Greenfield has provided a unique glossary of terms, styles, structures, and names related to conservation and bookbinding through the ages illustrated with over 700 line drawings. Locating accurate descriptions of bookbindings from various periods has previously been frustrating for those who work with rare and antiquarian books, especially conservators, librarians, book collectors and antiquarian book specialists. However, this frustration will abate as Greenfield's work takes place alongside John Carter's ABC For Book Collectors as well as Don Etherington's and Matt T. Roberts' Bookbinding and Conservation of Books. Ms. Greenfield, a master in the field of bookbinding and conservation, examines the book's development from the earliest periods and in different places. She has provided names and drawings for almost every conceivable part of the book as well as a multitude of styles, bindings, and decorations. She literally takes apart the structure of the book and illustrates the many and varied facets and definitions that clearly outline the historical development of the book's structures and styles.