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Cambridge bookbinding, 1450-1770

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Field name	Details
ISBN	1940965233 (hardcover)
ISBN	9781940965239 (hardcover)
Author	Pearson, David 1955-
Title	Cambridge bookbinding, 1450-1770 / David Pearson
Publisher	Ann Arbor, MI : Legacy Press, 2023
Physical desc.	x, 331 pages ; colour illustrations ; 27 cm.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-324) and index.
Contents	Introduction. Cambridge bookbinding in its broader context -- Naming the binder -- Methodology of this book -- Questions to ask -- Chronological range -- The bookbinding process in the handpress era -- Bookbinding in the Cambridge book trade. What do we mean by 'bookbinder'? -- Tools of the trade -- Learning to bind -- Bigger Cambridge picture -- Trade networks -- 1450-1500 -- 1500-1560 -- 1560-1610 -- 1610-1660 -- 1660-1710 -- 1710-1770 -- Customers. Academics -- Students -- International customers -- Outside the University -- Bindings for presentation -- Personalised and armorial bookbindings -- Institutional armorial stamps -- Costs of binding -- Stationery binding in Cambridge -- Appendix A: Cambridge binding tools -- Appendix B: Cambridge bookbinders -- Appendix C: Sources for figures and binding tools.
Subject	Bookbinding -- England -- Cambridge -- History
	Bookbinding -- England -- History
	Bookbinders -- England
	Fine bindings -- England
	Armorial bindings -- England

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10015301	686.30942 PEA	RL		. Available .