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Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
The American Bookbinder
Author: The American Bookbinder ...
Author: Bookbinders' Finishing Tool Makers, 1780-1965
Author: Tom ConroyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781584560579
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The American Bookbinder
Author: Fine Bookbinding in the Twentieth Century
Author: Roy Harley LewisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Women in the Bookbinding Trade
Author: Mary Van KleeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Dark Archives
Author: Megan RosenbloomPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374717427
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy—the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. Dozens of such books live on in the world’s most famous libraries and museums. Dark Archives exhumes their origins and brings to life the doctors, murderers, and indigents whose lives are sewn together in this disquieting collection. Along the way, Rosenbloom tells the story of how her team of scientists, curators, and librarians test rumored anthropodermic books, untangling the myths around their creation and reckoning with the ethics of their custodianship. A librarian and journalist, Rosenbloom is a member of The Order of the Good Death and a cofounder of their Death Salon, a community that encourages conversations, scholarship, and art about mortality and mourning. In Dark Archives—captivating and macabre in all the right ways—she has crafted a narrative that is equal parts detective work, academic intrigue, history, and medical curiosity: a book as rare and thrilling as its subject.
The Art of Bookbinding
Author: Joseph William ZaehnsdorfPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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The Journal of Dora Damage
Author: Belinda StarlingPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608196046
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
London, 1860: On the brink of destitution, Dora Damage illicitly takes over her ailing husband's bookbinding business, only to find herself lured into binding expensive volumes of pornography commissioned by aristocratic roués. Dora's charm and indefatigable spirit carry her through this rude awakening as she contends with violent debt collectors, an epileptic daughter, evil doctors, a rheumatic husband, errant workmen, nosy neighbors, and a constant stream of wealthy dilettantes. When she suddenly finds herself forced to offer an internship to a mysterious, fugitive American slave, Dora realizes she has been pulled into in an illegal trade of sex, money, and deceit. The Journal of Dora Damage conjures a vision of London when it was the largest city in the world, grappling with the filth produced by a swollen population. Against a backdrop of power and politics, work and idleness, conservatism and abolitionism, Belinda Starling explores the restrictions of gender, class, and race, the ties of family and love, and the price of freedom in this wholly engrossing debut novel. REVIEWS: "Unfortunately, Starling's debut novel will be her last; she died prematurely last year at the age of 34. Although the plot is a bit too crowded and overworked-a common novice mistake-this historical melodrama artfully evokes the contradictions inherent in Victorian society. When Dora Damage is forced by circumstances-an invalid husband and an epileptic daughter-to take over the family bookbinding business, she is inexorably drawn into a London netherworld she barely knew existed. As if binding pornographic books for a circle of aristocratic clients isn't bad enough, she is also compelled to harbor Din Nelson, a fugitive American slave. Unable to suppress her emotional and physical attraction for Din, she gives into desire and her real education begins."- Booklist
Book Restoration Unveiled
Author: Sophia S. W. BoglePublisher:
ISBN: 9781732431737
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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