Studies in the History of Bookbinding: Selected Studies (Studies in the History of Printing)

The work of G. D. Hobson on the history of bookbinding, in particular English medieval and Renaissance bindings, is well known. His studies on Romanesque English bookbinding marked a pioneer effort to trace the development of the art of binding in early medieval England, and remain the fundamental introduction to the subject. Similarly, his celebrated study of blind-stamped panels in the English Renaissance book-trade has become a classic. The author’s interests also extended to French bindings, and his work on Parisian bookbinding in the first quarter of the sixteenth century is of great importance; it is reprinted here with a number of his other studies on Grolier bindings. The collection of these articles in one volume, with an introduction by A.R.A. Hobson, represents not only a valuable introduction to the work of one of the major authorities on English bookbinding, but also a compendium of some of the most outstanding contributions to the subject. Contents: Preface; Some early binders and binders’ tools; A newly discovered Romanesque binding; Trois relieures romanes; Further notes on Romanesque bindings; Further notes on the binding of the Hayes manuscript; Parisian binding, 1500-1525; Une relieure aux armes d’Henri III a la Bibliothèque Nationale; Zwei Einbande in der Preussischen Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Ein Einband in der Universitätsbibliothek zu Cambridge; Weiland Dr. Theodor Gottlieb und seine “Grolierstudien”; An Italian binding of Paolo Guardano; Blind-stamped panels in the English book-trade; Bindings of Thomas Wotton; An early seventeenth-century Scottish binding; A seventeenth-century monogram on the bindings of James II; Et amicorum; Bibliography; Index.…