When I did a simple search on bookbinding, I found many titles referring to bookbinding as an “art”. I had never considered bookbinding as this but as I looked more into the art of making codex I understood more about the art of book making. The way that I went about finding this category was through ScholarSearch on the Harold B. Lee Library website which allows one to refine published works by type (book, journal, article) or even by subject. The website even shows where to find the book in the HBLL.
Brassington, William Salt, and John Hannett. A History of the Art of Bookbinding. With Some Account of the Books of the Ancients. New York: Macmillan &, 1894. Print. An account of the art of bookbinding along with some accounts of the books of the ancients.
Cundall, Joseph. Joseph Cundall on Bookbinding History. New York: Garland, 1990. Print. Cundall looks at ornamental art as applied to bookbinding both ancient and new.
Duff, E. Gordon. The Printers, Stationers, and Bookbinders of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535. Cambridge: University, 1906. Print. Duff provides a historical study of the publishing industry in London. The first section covers the period from 1476, when Caxton set up his printing press at Westminster, to around 1500, when a series of essential changes took place in the English book-trade. The second section covers the period from 1501 to 1535, covering the important 1534 Printing Act passed during the twenty-fifth year of Henry VIII's reign. They both contain analyses of the key figures in the inception of English print.
Dutton, Meiric K. Historical Sketch of Bookbinding as an Art. Norwood [Mass.: Holliston Mills, 1926. Print. There are five chapters that include the beginnings of binding in Italy, France, England and America.
Foot, Mirjam. Bookbinders at Work: Their Roles and Methods. London: British Library, 2006. Print. Foot describes the role of the bookbinder and the significance that binding has had as it’s been disregarded by bibliographers. The author sets out to reverse the trend, by establishing working binders, their materials and tools, as an essential part of the production cycle. She reveals the inadequacy of bibliographical descriptions that lack binding information.
Grevel, H. The Book: Its Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, from Gutenberg to the Present Time. Detroit: Gale Research, 1971. Print. Grevel looks at the art of collecting and describing early printed books. It includes a Latin-English and English-Latin topographical index of the earliest printing places. Also contains early typography, book-illustrations, printers' marks, bindings, numerous borders, initials, head and tail pieces, and a frontispiece
Hoe, Robert. A Lecture on Bookbinding as a Fine Art. New York: Garland, 1990. Print. This book shows modern printing technologies as well as photocopying for reprinting and preserving rare works of literature that are out-of-print or on the verge of becoming lost.
Middleton, Bernard C., Richard J. Wolfe, Henry Parry, and Hugh Sinclair. The Whole Art of Bookbinding. The Whole Process of Marbling Paper. [Austin]: Printed and Sold in Austin by W. Thomas Taylor, 1987. Print. The books a reprint of the earliest English bookbinding manual and is a reprint of the first English paper-marbling manual.
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How fascinating; I had never thought of it as an art either. It seems there was so much effort that went into each and every codex, and we as a culture have lost sight of that. How do you think we can renew appreciation for books?
ReplyDeleteI would say that our appreciation for books has shifted. Now we care more about the words on the page. But thinking about what we talked about in class last Tuesday, about the making of printed books and how different fonts/pages change our experience, I think we still appreciate a nice (well-bound) book, we just don't recognize it. Also, was any one else confused about which he thought was more important, the words or the book?
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