Author: Cyril DavenportPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Cantor Lectures on Decorative Bookbinding
Author: Cyril DavenportPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Pacific Bindery Talk
Author: Pacific Bindery Talk
Author: W. Elmo ReavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Book
Author: Cyril DavenportPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
"The Book: Its History and Development" by Cyril Davenport is a comprehensive exploration of the history and evolution of books. Davenport's work delves into the origins of the book, tracing its development from ancient manuscripts to the printed books of the modern era. By examining the technologies, materials, and innovations that have shaped the book throughout history, this book offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of bibliophiles and collectors. It is a valuable resource for those interested in the history of publishing and book production, shedding light on the enduring significance of the written word.
Journal of the Society of Arts
Author: A Manual of Historic Ornament, Treating Upon the Evolution, Tradition, and Development of Architecture & the Applied Arts
Author: Richard GlazierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Journal of the Royal Society of Arts
Author: Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
Journal of the Royal Society of Arts
Author: A Reader's Guide to the Choice of the Best Available Books (about 50,000) in Every Department of Science, Art & Literature, with the Dates of the First & Last Editions, & the Price, Size & Publisher's Name of Each Book
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
On Parchment
Author: Bruce HolsingerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300260210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia "Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book history."--Kirkus Reviews For centuries, premodern societies recorded and preserved much of their written cultures on parchment: the rendered skins of sheep, cows, goats, camels, deer, gazelles, and other creatures. These remains make up a significant portion of the era's surviving historical record. In a study spanning three millennia and twenty languages, Bruce Holsinger explores this animal archive as it shaped the inheritance of the Euro-Mediterranean world, from the leather rolls of ancient Egypt to the Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Holsinger discusses the making of parchment past and present, the nature of the medium as a biomolecular record of faunal life and environmental history, the knotty question of "uterine vellum," and the imaginative role of parchment in the works of St. Augustine, William Shakespeare, and a range of Jewish rabbinic writers of the medieval era. Closely informed by the handicraft of contemporary makers, painters, and sculptors, the book draws on a vast array of sources--codices and scrolls, documents and ephemera, works of craft and art--that speak to the vitality of parchment across epochs and continents. At the center of On Parchment is the vexed relationship of human beings to the myriad slaughtered beasts whose remains make up this vast record: a relationship of dominion and compassion, of brutality and empathy.