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I began an exercise to find contemporary descriptions of the books, on which Owen Jones worked, to a greater or lesser extent; using the online resource, the British Newspaper Archive, to search for sale advertisements (or book reviews) which were placed in contemporary newspapers, normally by the publisher, or a majority of works had advertisements, giving the book format, the.

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The designs on these bindings traditionally have been viewed as a rich. Victorian publisher's bookbindings Saturday, 21 July In Wakeman’s Victorian Book Illustration, he states at the end of a brief section on electrotyping (p): “It is likely that by the second half of the century many, if not most, wood engravings used in bookwork were printed from electrotypes.

This, at least, was the practice. Victorian Bookbindings is a survey of the decoration found on mass-produced bookbindings of the nineteenth century. The designs on these bindings traditionally have been viewed as a rich, often lavish and random, assortment of Victorian bookbindings; book.

It clearly identifies the different styles which Price: $ View all of the Victorian natural history cloth bookbindings at the University of Toronto’s Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library’s Flickr.

Share Facebook Tweet EmailAuthor: Allison Meier. Victorian Bookbindings is a survey of the decoration found on mass-produced bookbindings of the nineteenth century. The designs on these bindings traditionally have been viewed as a rich, often lavish and random, assortment of ornaments.

It clearly identifies the different styles which emerged and declined within specific periods, and which were the product of the interplay between popular art.

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Howard Leathlean, Henry Noel Humphreys and the Getting Up of books in the mid nineteenth century In the Book Collelctor. Vol 38 no 2. Summer pp p Ruari McLean, Victorian publishers’ bookbindings in paper London, p Ruari McLean Victorian book design and colour printing [London] []p Notes.

Victorian bookbindings: a pictorial survey. The beginnings of book cloth --Embossing and blind stamping --Gold stamping --Early gold vignettes --The search for silver --Gold spreads Bindings of the eighties -- Rich, variant bindings -- Rossetti and Japanese Victorian -- Morris and Beardsley -- Art nouveau -- Ricketts and Housman -- A.

Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book of codex format from an ordered stack of paper sheets that are folded together into sections or sometimes left as a stack of individual sheets.

The stack is then bound together along one edge by either sewing with thread through the folds or by a layer of flexible adhesive. Alternative methods of binding that are cheaper but less. Victorian Publishers' Book-bindings in Paper by Ruari McLean, which was first published inis a book that presents Victorian bookbindings during the nineteenth century through text and illustrations.

McLean focuses on the Victorian techniques that primarily used paper bindings as opposed to leather and cloth. Filed under: Bookbinding, Victorian The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (Edinburgh: W. Nimmo, []), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, illust.

by Keeley Halswelle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only). The site provides an online source of information and a finding aid to bookbindings in the British Library. Images and searchable text relating to selected bindings continue to be added.

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Just as Victorian bookbindings reflect the technical innovations of the age, they also reflect artistic styles and periods. Bindings of the s and s, for example, mirror the "high Victorian" love of ornamentation, color, gilt, clutter, and sentimentality.

An Introduction to Victorian Trade Bindings — Tom Kinsella's Review of Edmund King's Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings, ; The British Library’s image database of bookbindings; a resource for Victorian research; Book Bindings of the s: the Christmas Gift Book; Dante Gabriel Rossetti as a Designer of Book Bindings.

The British Library’s image database of bookbindings; a resource for Victorian research Edmund King. Victorian Web Home —> Visual Arts —> Victorian Design —> Book Design] The British Library holds one of the world's leading collections of fine and historic bindings.

Numbering in their thousands, the bindings are included in discrete. In the Victorian age most book owners felt that any book worth keeping deserved to be rebound, usually in some form of leather to become part of your personal library.

This means books from this era (when book owners were wealthy and privileged), and earlier, have often been re-bound making the original publisher’s bindings that much rarer.

British Bookbindings: 16th - 19th Century At any rate the binding appears to be contemporary with the book which bears an inscription stating that in the early sixteenth century it was the property of the monks of Newminster, a Cistercian abbey in Northumberland.

This is one of the black papier maché bindings which were supreme. “Victorian Radicals” is a rare opportunity to see an extensive and comprehensive testament to three generations of some of the most influential artists in British history who defiantly altered the course of art history.

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