This text consists of articles on the history of bookbinding and related subjects, most of which have been published previously in a wide variety of places. Sev

An expanded version of a series of lectures, supplemented with the results of ten years of intensive research in major libraries on the Continent, the United Ki

"This second printing of David Pearson's English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800 includes a new introduction and a number of additional references and relevant poi

The work of G. D. Hobson on the history of bookbinding, in particular English medieval and Renaissance bindings, is well known. His studies on Romanesque Englis

Based on the Lyell Lectures given by Howard Nixon at Oxford in 1979, this lavishly illustrated book traces the decorated binding in England from the earliest su