'For the love of the binding' : studies in bookbinding history presented to Mirjam Foot

Twenty-seven eminent scholars in manuscript and bookbinding studies, including colleagues and former students of Foote (Rare Book Collection, British Library), are the contributors to this impressive festschrift. Diverse aspects of the field are explored, although the place of origin of the majority of the bindings discussed is Britain. Among the topics included are: the incorporation of illuminated manuscripts in bindings, the use of medieval manuscript pages in publishers' wrappers in the 1920's, 16th-century incunabulae in a Brussels monastic library, tooling on bindings, Venetian bindings, and several essays on late 18th and 19th-century bindings and their makers. The quantity and quality of the figures and plates that accompany each essay help make this volume a valuable reference. It is co-published with the British Library. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Mirjam Foot / Robin Myers -- Romanesque Blind-stamped Binding At The Queen's College, Oxford / Michael Gullick -- Medieval Manuscript Leaves As Publishers' Wrappers In The 1920s / Christopher De Hamel -- Fragments Found In Bindings And Their Role As Bibliographical Evidence / Lotte Hellinga -- Crutched Friars, Lambs, Roses, And Crosses : Brussels Incunables On The Shelves Of The Crutched Friars At The Turn Of The Sixteenth Century / Elly Cockx-indestege -- Advent Of Gold Tooling In English Bookbinding And The Intermediary Role Of Thomas Linacre / Giles Barber -- Plaquette And Medallion Bindings : A Second Supplement / Anthony Hobson -- Commissioni Dogali : Venetian Bookbindings In The British Library / Laura Nuvoloni -- Some Unrecorded Sixteenth-century French Bookbindings / Nicolas Barker -- Tacketed Bindings -- A Hundred Years Of European Bookbinding / Nicholas Pickwoad -- Bookbinding In Cambridge In The Second Half Of The Sixteenth Century / David Pearson -- Seventeenth-century Cambridge Pyxides / Elisabeth Leedham-green -- Bible Bound In 1661 By Patrick Erskine For The Earl And Countess Of Caithness / John Morris -- Putting Book Structures Within An Historical Context : A Note On The Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-century Paper Bindings In The Wolf Collection, Staats- Und Universitätsbibliothek, Hamburg / Vanessa C. Marshall -- It Glitters And Is More Than Gold : Fore-edge Paintings In The Dutch Royal Library / Jan Storm Van Leeuwen. Autograph Album Of A Jorneyman Bookbinder : Alexander Troschel Of Nuremberg (1758-69) / David Paisey -- Scott Bindings On The 1770 Foulis Milton / Richard Ovenden -- John Whittaker's Edition Of The Magna Carta, Its Printing, And His Bindings On The Wormsley Copies / Bryan Maggs -- Four Bindings And A Will : Thomas Jones Ellison And Some Notes On Nineteenth-century Signed Rolls / John Collins -- John Hannett's Bibliopegia And Inquiry, And Salt Brassington's Revision / Paul Morgan -- Bookbindings Of Benjamin West (1804-83) / Esther Potter -- Mid-nineteenth-century Book-trade Binder : Florent Pollender And The Firm Of Hanicq-dessain In Mechelen / Christian Coppens -- Book Cover Designs Of William Harry Rogers / Edmund M.b. King -- Mysterious Mr De Sauty / Marianne Tidcombe -- Secret, Loud And Clear / Anna Simoni -- Keatley Trust Collection Of Modern British Bindings / Dorothy A. Harrop -- Jean De Gonet Binding At The British Library / P.j.m. Marks -- Bibliography Of The Writings Of Mirjam Foot -- Index -- Colour Plates. Edited By David Pearson. Bibliography Of The Writings Of Mirjam Foot: P. 367-374. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This is the story of the Dunhuang cave temples on China's fabled Silk Road. It describes the long-term collaboration between the Getty Conservation Institute and Chinese authorities to preserve the Dunhuang shrines. Twenty-six eminent scholars and colleagues have contributed essays reflecting Mirjam Foot's own research interests, especially the placement of bindings in their historical context. xiv, 378 p., 16 pages of plates : 29 cm "Bibliography of the writings of Mirjam Foot": p. 367-374 Includes bibliographical references and index