Bookbindings from the library of Jean Grolier: A loan exhibition 23 September - 31 October 1965

Nixon, Howard M.

Verlag: Trustees of the British Museum, 1965

Beschreibung

8vo (22.5 cm), frontispiece, XX, 75, [3] pages, 139 plates. Bound in imitation leather with a gilt-lettered spine and gilt front cover. This catalog published in connection with an exhibition at the British Museum held from September 23 to October 31, 1965, organized to commemorate the fourth centenary of the death of Jean Grolier. The exhibition showcased 138 volumes from British and Irish libraries, constituting nearly a quarter of those known to have survived. Through an examination of the tools used, Nixon identified the workshop that produced the majority of Grolier's bindings (items 19-111), previously recognized as the Entrelac binder, attributed to Claude de Picques, the binder of Henri II. The catalog includes 11 plates featuring rubbings of tools and 128 photographs of bindings. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006499

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Bookbindings from the library of Jean ...

Verlag: Trustees of the British Museum

Erscheinungsdatum: 1965

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine