Bookbindings: An Illustrated History curated for the home he is less well known

he is less well known than contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning

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ISBN 978-0-89236-763-4

admirably comprehensive

and a Preface to a New Treatise on the Introduction and Progress of the Fine Arts in Europe in Ancient Times

Bookbindings: An Illustrated History curated for the home he is less well knownAn extravagantly illustrated history of the development of bookbindings, from antiquity to modern day. Bindings have been an essentialand often beautifulcomponent of books since the codex form was invented 2,000 years ago. They make books work, but they also provide an opportunity for binders to display their skills. Until book trade processes were industrialized in the nineteenth century, every binding was a unique handcrafted object, no matter how