Women bookbinders, 1880-1920 / Marianne Tidcombe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tidcombe, Marianne, author.

Contributor:

Oak Knoll Press, publisher.

British Library, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women bookbinders--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Women bookbinders.

Women bookbinders--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Bookbinders--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Bookbinders.

Bookbinders--Great Britain--History--20th century.

History.

Great Britain.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Women book binders, 1880-1920

Place of Publication:

New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press, 1996.

London : British Library.

Contents:

I. Historical Introduction

II. Women Trade Binders at the End of the 19th Century

III. Embroidered Bookbindings. Painted Vellum Bindings. Vernis sans Odeur. Vellucent Bindings. Sutherland Bindings. Metalwork Bindings, Clasps & Bosses. Cosway Bindings. Fore-edge Painting

IV. Modelled Leather Bindings, and Pokerwork

V. Sarah Treverbian Prideaux

VI. Frank Karslake and The Guild of Women Binders

VII. Katharine Adams

VIII. Sybil Pye

IX. Pupils, and Other Women Bookbinders

X. Women Binders in America and Elsewhere Abroad

App. 1. Sarah Prideaux's Tools, and a List of her Bindings

App. 2. Katharine Adams' Tools, and a List of her Bindings

App. 3. Sybil Pye's Tools, and a List of her Bindings

App. 4. List of Women and Groups Associated with the Guild of Women Binders

App. 5. Bindings by Elizabeth M. MacColl

App. 6. Some Women Binders Not Mentioned in the Text

App. 7. List of British Women in Charge of Bookbinder's Shops, 1648-1901.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 223) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck copy retains dust jacket.

ISBN:

188471823X

0712304118

OCLC:

35029717