Author: ed. David Pearson

Publisher/Date: Oak Knoll/British Library, (2000, 1st) Retail $135.00

Format/Condition: Hardcover book . Issued with clear dust jacket. 378 pages, measures 9×11 inches. profusely illustrated in b/w with 14 pages of color plates

Description: Twenty-six of the world’s most prestigious bookbinding experts have contributed essays reflecting Mirjam Foot’s own research interests, particularly the placement of bindings in their historical context. A sample list of subjects and authors in the book are: “The Mysterious Mr. de Sauty” by Marianne Tidcombe; “Some unrecorded sixteenth-century French bookbindings” by Nicolas Barker; “Tacketed Bindings – a hundred years of European bookbinding” by Nicholas Pickwoad; “The Keatley Trust Collection of modern British Bindings” by Dorothy A. Harrop; “John Wittaker’s edition of the Magna Carta, its printing, and his bindings on the Wormsley copies” by Bryan Maggs. Other authors include Anthony Hobson, Lotte Hellinga, David Pearson, Robin Myers, and more.