The Arcadian Library : bindings and provenance / edited by Giles Mandelbrote & Willem de Bruijn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mandelbrote, Giles, editor.

Bruijn, Willem de, editor.

Oxford University Press, publisher.

Arcadian Library (London, England), publisher.

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Series:

Studies in the Arcadian Library ; no. 9.

Studies in the Arcadian library ; no. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arcadian Library (London, England).

Books--Provenance.

Books.

Fine bindings.

Private libraries--England--London.

Private libraries.

England--London.

Physical Description:

336 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 32 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Arcadian Library in association with Oxford University Press, 2014.

Contents:

Introduction

Some earlier British owners of books in the Arcadian Library and their marks of ownership and use

Princes, ministers and scholars: some non-English provenances in the Arcadian Library

Three bindings à la fanfare and the origins of the fanfare style

Selected European decorated bookbindings in the Arcadian Library

The Ottoman world of 'Abdallah Zakher: the bindings of the Melkite monastery at Shuwayr in the Arcadian Library

The structures and materials of commercial bookbindings in the Arcadian Library

Some decorative endpapers in the Arcadian Library.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

0199654816

9780199654819

OCLC:

890831086

Publisher Number:

99962598146