Great bindings from the Spanish Royal collections, 15th-21st centuries / directed by María Luisa López-Vidriero.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

López-Vidriero, María Luisa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spain. Real Biblioteca.

Bookbinding--Spain--Exhibitions.

Bookbinding.

History.

Spain.

Bookbinding--Spain--History.

Spain. Real Biblioteca--Catalogs.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

351 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Madrid] : Patrimonio Nacional : Ediciones El Viso, [2012]

Summary:

This book brings together the most select pieces from the Hapsburg and Bourbon collections from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries, which are analysed from different perspectives by the most prestigious international experts on the art of bookbinding.

It deals with aspects ranging from the complex relations between Francis I of Frances and Charles V, which are the context for a group of French bindings held at EL Escorial; the varied commissions of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, who gave the contents of his library to Philip II; and the structure of limp parchment bindings and their production process, which provides useful information for studying the circulation of books in Europe; to bindings executed by known typographers such as Plantin and Bodoni; and, finally, the serial but distinctive bindings on the books in the Real Biblioteca that were created by royal bookbinders as part of the effort to shape a national historical image for the king. All this is accompanied by more than two hundred colour illustrations and a complete thematic bibliography on bookbinding in Spain. Book jacket.

Contents:

Bookbinding, an Artistic Language / Víctor Nieto Alcalde Alcalde, Víctor Nieto 17

The Humble among the Distinguished / Carlos Clavería Laguarda Laguarda, Carlos Clavería 55

Keys to the Evolution of the Armorial Bindings of Patrimonio Nacional / Valentín Moreno Gallego Gallego, Valentín Moreno 75

Books for Reading. Commercial Bindings in Parchment and Paper in the Era of the Handpress / Nicholas Pickwoad Pickwoad, Nicholas 95

Diego Hurtado de Mendoza / Anthony Hobson Hobson, Anthony 123

Three Aspects of French Bindings in the Spanish National Heritage Collections / Isabelle de Conihout Conihout, Isabelle de, Pascal Ract-Madoux Ract-Madoux, Pascal 149

Bodonian Bindings / Pedro M. Cátedra Cátedra, Pedro M. 191

Eadem Sed Aliter. Uniformity and Singularity in Royal Bindings / María Luisa López-Vidriero López-Vidriero, María Luisa 225

From Industry to Art. Two Changes of Century in the Bindings of the Real Biblioteca / Dolores Baldó Baldó, Dolores 281

A Thematic Bibliography of Bookbinding in Spain (from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries): Historiography of Contemporary Studies / Concha Lois Lois, Concha 309.

Notes:

"Great bindings from the Spanish Royal collections (15th-21st centuries) is the first exhibition of the outstanding bindings preserved in the Real Biblioteca of the Royal Palace and in the monastery of El Escorial and the convents of Las Huelgas, Las Descalzas and La Encarnación"--P. [7]

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-335).

ISBN:

8495241935

9788471204745

8471204746

9788495241931

OCLC:

805390127

Publisher Number:

99953131148