9780954731083 - the james de rothschild bequest at waddeson manor: printed books and bookbinding di barber, giles (1 risultati)
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 2 volumes, 4to (31 cm), 520, [64] pp.; [6] pp., 521-1161 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jackets (minor shelf-wear, a few notes by the previous owner). The definitive catalogue of the outstanding collection of late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French books and their bindings assembled by B…aron Ferdinand de Rothschild during the last twenty years of the nineteenth century, one of the finest collections of its kind outside Paris and here fully described and reproduced for the first time. The project was originally begun by the bibliographer Graham Pollard (1903-1976), who undertook extensive cataloguing and initial tool-identification work before his sudden death in 1976; it was subsequently completed and largely rewritten by Giles Barber, formerly Librarian of the Taylor Institution, Oxford, and a leading authority on the eighteenth-century French book trade and bookbinding. Volume I contains fifteen substantial chapters covering Baron Ferdinand as collector; the Parisian bookbinding trade of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the development of French decorative styles, including mosaic and dentelle bindings and the work of the Deromes and other leading binders; gilding techniques; the Cabinet du Roi bindings; the practice of binders signing their work; and non-French bindings at Waddesdon. This is followed by eighteen Tools Lists, providing a classified, actual-size repertory of approximately one thousand tools used by Parisian binders, reproduced from digitized images of the bindings themselves, together with lists of former owners and booksellers' marks and traces. Volume II comprises the catalogue proper, with detailed descriptions of all 790 books and manuscripts in the collection, including title-page transcriptions, collations, plate lists, provenance, and extensive descriptions of the bindings. A landmark reference work for the study of French fine binding under the ancien régime, combining bibliographical description, provenance research, binding history, and systematic tool identification on an exceptional scale. An essential reference for collectors, dealers, and scholars of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French books and bindings, and an important companion to the other Waddesdon Manor catalogues issued under the Rothschild bequest to the National Trust.
