English Blind Stamped Bindings

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-521-13664-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

This book of the Sandar Lectures for 1949 confines itself to English blind-stamped bindings of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Oldham, an authority on his subject, here describes his methods of study, and accounts for many groups of bindings that may be attributed to particular craftsmen or binderies. Oldham's experience includes all important English collections, His book devises a method of ornament-classification and description and is illustrated by 61 plates.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oldham, John Ed.

Oldham

Oldham, J. Basil

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Nicht-Graphische Kunstformen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; List of plates; Abbreviations; Lecture I; Lecture II; Lecture III; Appendix: classification of rolls and ornaments; Index to Plate LX; Glossary; Index.