Author: Roy Harley LewisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Fine Bookbinding in the Twentieth Century
Author: Roy Harley LewisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Book Encompassed
Author: Peter DavisonPublisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The most important survey volume to appear in almost fifty years, this collection provides a landmark in what has become the vast and vital field of bibliographic studies.
Artists of 20th-century New Mexico
Author: Museum of Fine Arts (Museum of New Mexico)Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Victorian Illustrated Books, 1850-1870
Author: Paul GoldmanPublisher: David R Godine Pub
ISBN: 9781567920147
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
For many book collectors, the Victorian period has always held a special fascination. These books were frequently illustrated by artists of immense talent, cased in exquisite bindings, and printed directly from wood blocks engraved by master craftsmen. One of this century's greatest collection of such books, formed by Robin de Beaumont, was recently donated to the British Museum. Victorian Illustrated Books is one of the few volumes devoted exclusively to this fascinating period. Containing a checklist of all 366 books and one hundred illustrations, drawings, and preliminary sketches, it presents a fully illustrated commentary on a collection of books that is outstanding for both its condition and the range of materials it holds. Here are children's books, secular and religious texts, novels, and gift books. The list of artists whose work is represented reads like a "Who's Who" of Victorian art: Edward Burne-Jones, Frederic Leighton, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and Arthur Boyd Houghton, as well as some of the finer later artists, such as Whistler, Sandys, and Shields. In addition, eight splendid bindings have been reproduced in full color. As the book demonstrates, the de Beaumont is arguably the most distinguished collection of such books ever assembled. And in this comprehensive and beautifully designed catalogue, collectors and institutions will finally have a reference work that is equal to the indisputable quality of the materials it so authoritatively discusses.
Śakoontalá
Author: KālidāsaBookbinders and Their Craft
Author: Sarah Treverbian PrideauxPublisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinders
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Wormsley Library
Author: Wormsley LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Red Harvest
Author: Dashiell HammettPublisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307767485
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The steadfast and sturdy Continental Op has been summoned to the town of Personville—known as Poisonville—a dusty mining community splintered by competing factions of gangsters and petty criminals. The Op has been hired by Donald Willsson, publisher of the local newspaper, who gave little indication about the reason for the visit. No sooner does the Op arrive, than the body count begins to climb . . . starting with his client. With this last honest citizen of Poisonville murdered, the Op decides to stay on and force a reckoning—even if that means taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.
Contemporary Illustrated Books
Author: Donna SteinThe History of Decorated Bookbinding in England
Author: Howard M. NixonPublisher: Oxford [England] ; Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Based on the Lyell Lectures given by Howard Nixon at Oxford in 1979, this lavishly illustrated book traces the decorated binding in England from the earliest surviving example, the St Cuthbert Gospel dating from a little before the end of the seventh century, to the beginning of the Modern Movement in the late 1940s. This books emphasis is on fine binding in leather, with the styles and designs used for its decoration, and with the tools employed to effect these designs. This work is the first to trace comprehensively the development of this English tradition and bring together numerous illustrations of the superb bindings produced over the last eight centuries.