Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings, 400-1600 (A Pierpont Morgan Library Book) by Paul Needham ISBN 13: 9780192115805

Pierpont Morgan Library, New York/ Oxford University Press, London, first edition, 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… Read More

Pierpoint Morgan Library, 1979. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Fine copy First Edition In Soft Paper . Excellent Reference on Fine Bindings..

Pierpont Morgan Library, New York/ Oxford University Press, London, first edition, 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… Read More

New York : Pierpont Morgan Library : Oxford University Press, 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.