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1. Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings: 400 1600 First edition. Buy it!

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Needham Paul
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New York & London: The Pierpont Morgan Library and Oxford University Press, Date: 1979. Hardback. Approx. 310mm x 230mm. xxvii, 338pp. Publisher's original red cloth binding with contrasting black panel to spine printed gilt. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. This book traces the history of bookbinding, form its beginnings to the end of the sixteenth century, through detailed consideration of one hundred important examples in The Pierpont Morgan Library. An introductory essay discusses the origin of the craft in the early Christian centuries; another discusses the mediaeval ecclesiastical tradition of "treasure" bindings, bookcovers of gold, silver, ivory, gems, enamel and other precious materials; a third surveys the development of leather bindings in early mediaeval Europe. Included are a group of important Coptic bindings, one of which is among the earliest intact bindings to have survived; ten mediaeval treasure bindings; and an extensive series of late fifteenth and sixteenth-century gold-tooled bindings, made for major patrons of the book arts of Renaissance Europe. All the bindings discussed are illustrated, including seven colour plates and numerous figures in text and diagrams. There are also extensive indexes and a bibliography. Book in very good+ condition. Some very slight rubbing to bottom edges of boards and extremities of spine. A very small amount of soiling to bottom text block edge. Almsot imperceptible touch of spotting to top text ...
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Needham Paul
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New York: Morgan Library and Oxford University Press, Date: 1979. Book. Illus. by tipped in color frontispiece and numerous black/white full page bindings. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A fine copy with no edgewear, printed by the esteemed Steinhour Press in Vermont. . 1979. Morgan Library and Oxford University Press ISBN 0192115804 9780192115805 [US]
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Needham P. ; Pierpont Morgan Library
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Pierpont Morgan Library, New York/ Oxford University Press, London, first edition, Date: 1979. Cloth, leather spine-label, 4to, 32 cm,. xxvii, 338 pp, plates (7 in colour). An appealing catalogue of one hundred bookbindings from the Pierpont Morgan Library dating from the 5th to the 16th centuries and arranged chronologically to chart the development of styles and techniques. The catalogue includes four Coptic bindings of the fifth to tenth centuries, ten medieval treasure bindings of the early ninth to twelfth centuries and later leather bindings from the Middle East and Europe. Each entry is fully described and accompanied by a full-page illustration, with seven of the plates in colour ( a Coptic binding, four jewelled book covers, the odd Roman-French (?) tracery binding made for Henri II on the vellum MS. of Giovanni délia Casa's De potentium ac tenuium inter se officiis and a handsome Parisian Greek style binding made for Marcus Fugger). Three essays cover (1) the emergence of the codex and early Christian bindings, (2) the production of medieval ecclesiastical book covers fashioned from precious metals and enriched with gems, and (3) the development of early medieval leather bindings. Indexes: I. Binderies and Places of Binding II. Provenance: Patrons, Collectors, Owners III. Bookbindings before 1600 in the Morgan Library: A Preliminary List. Very Good in a used dustwrapper with a few minor tears. 1979. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York/ Oxford ...
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Paul Needham
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Pierpoint Morgan Library, Date: 1979. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Fine copy First Edition In Soft Paper . Excellent Reference on Fine Bindings.. 1979. Pierpoint Morgan Library ISBN 0192115804 US
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Paul Needham
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Pierpoint Morgan Library 1979 1st Edition Soft cover Fine Book. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. Fine copy First Edition In Soft Paper. Excellent Reference on Fine Bindings.
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Paul Needham
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Pierpoint Morgan Library, Date: 1979. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Fine copy First Edition In Soft Paper . Excellent Reference on Fine Bindings.. 1979. Pierpoint Morgan Library ISBN 0192115804 9780192115805 [US]
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Paul Needham
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ISBN10: 0192115804, ISBN13: 9780192115805, [publisher: Pierpoint Morgan Library] Softcover First Edition Fine copy First Edition In Soft Paper . Excellent Reference on Fine Bindings.
[Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1979]
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Pierpont Morgan Library, New York/ Oxford University Press, London, first edition, Date: 1979. Cloth, leather spine-label, 4to, 32 cm,. xxvii, 338 pp, plates (7 in colour). An appealing catalogue of one hundred bookbindings from the Pierpont Morgan Library dating from the 5th to the 16th centuries and arranged chronologically to chart the development of styles and techniques. The catalogue includes four Coptic bindings of the fifth to tenth centuries, ten medieval treasure bindings of the early ninth to twelfth centuries and later leather bindings from the Middle East and Europe. Each entry is fully described and accompanied by a full-page illustration, with seven of the plates in colour ( a Coptic binding, four jewelled book covers, the odd Roman-French (?) tracery binding made for Henri II on the vellum MS. of Giovanni délia Casa's De potentium ac tenuium inter se officiis and a handsome Parisian Greek style binding made for Marcus Fugger). Three essays cover (1) the emergence of the codex and early Christian bindings, (2) the production of medieval ecclesiastical book covers fashioned from precious metals and enriched with gems, and (3) the development of early medieval leather bindings. Indexes: I. Binderies and Places of Binding II. Provenance: Patrons, Collectors, Owners III. Bookbindings before 1600 in the Morgan Library: A Preliminary List. Slightly duststained on top edge, fore-edge a little spotted, otherwise Very Good in price-clipped dustwrapper ...
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Needham Paul
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New York : Pierpont Morgan Library : Oxford University Press, Date: 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xxvii, 338 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm. Subjects: Bookbinding, Medieval History. Bookbinding, Renaissance History. Books Europe History 400-1450. Books Europe History 1450-1600. Genre: History. Language: English. 1979. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library : Oxford University Press ISBN 0192115804 9780192115805 [IE]
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