English Embossed Bindings 1825–50

Mrs Jamieson studies the social and technological conditions which made possible the mass-production of handsomely bound books.

Eleanore Jamieson (Author)

9780521096935, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 June 1972

128 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 0.1 cm, 0.2 kg

The decorative art of embossed book binding was a small but significant facet of the Gothic Revival. Mrs Jamieson studies the social and technological conditions which made possible the mass-production of handsomely bound books and analyses recurrent motifs and styles of binding of a number of books produced in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. She gives detailed bibliographical descriptions of sixty-two bindings, twenty-four of which are illustrated. The plates are reproduced by a fine screen letterpress process from rubbings made by the author.

Preface
Abbreviations
1. The Gothic Background
2. Social setting
3. Embossing - origins and process
4. Styles of embossed bindings
5. Embossing machines
6. Materials and methods of covering
Catalogue of embossed bindings
Appendices
Select bibliography
Plates.

Subject Areas: Linguistics [CF]