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Victorian bookbindings : a pictorial survey / Sue Allen.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Rare Books Collection Z269 .A48 1976
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Sue.
- Series:
- University of Chicago Press text/fiche.
- A University of Chicago Press text/fiche
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bookbinding--Facsimiles.
- Bookbinding.
- Bookbinding, Victorian.
- Physical Description:
- v, 53 p. ; 21 cm. & 3 sheets (col. ; 11 x 15 cm.) in pocket.
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1976.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The beginnings of book cloth
- Embossing and blind stamping
- Gold stamping
- Early gold vignettes
- The search for silver
- Gold spreads out
- Sixties books
- Black and gold
- Bindings of the eighties
- Rich, variant bindings
- Rossetti and Japanese victorian
- Morris and beardsley
- Art nouveau
- Ricketts and housman
- A late return to simplicity
- The Cranford series
- European bindings
- List of books illustrated.
- Notes:
- The Sheets are microfiche.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: Roger W. Moss, jr.
- ISBN:
- 0226687872
- OCLC:
- 2089735
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