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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Bookbinding"”.
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The bookbinder and historical invisibility: bookbinding and the Staffordshire book trade 1750-1850
Provincial bookbinding has been largely overlooked as a subject for study. The social history of bookbinding has been neglected in the historiography of the book trade, confining it in narrow bibliographical studies. This thesis investigates and challenges this situation, and the orthodox view of …
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Transforming structured descriptions to visual representations. An automated visualization of historical bookbinding structures
… of material objects, with a focus on bookbinding structures, into standardized and scholarly-sound visual representations. In the last few decades, the recording and management of documentation data about material objects, including bookbindings, has switched from paper-based archives …
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Classification of Finishing Tools in Greek Bookbinding: Establishing links from the Library of St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt
The thesis examines the decoration of Greek bookbinding, through the study of the leather-covered bindings from the monastery of Saint Catherine in Sinai, Egypt. The manuscript collection is remarkable for the variety of binding styles that represent mainly Greek but also other bookbinding …
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The evolution of a craft: Post-Byzantine bookbinding between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth century from the libraries of the Iviron Monastery in Mount Athos/Greece and the St. Catherine's monastery in Sinai/Egypt.
… the ways through which the Greek-style bookbinding was gradually supplanted by European bookbinding, a process which occurred between the late fifteenth century, after the fall of the Byzantine Empire, and the early eighteenth century. The Greek-style bookbinding is a distinctive …
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Limp, laced-case binding in parchment on sixteenth-century Mexican printed books
… and other trades that support printing, such as bookbinding, were also developed. This thesis investigates the influence of the Spanish and other European bookbinding practices on sixteenth-century Mexican limp, laced-case parchment bindings by the analysis of the features of the bindings of …
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"Alla Greca"? Matter and Meaning of Greek-style bookbindings in Renaissance Venice
… “material turn” and an increased attention for bookbinding structures in book history, I provide an outline of the evolution of Greek-style bookbinding techniques from the 1450s to the end of the sixteenth century and discuss their reception through material evidence, documentary, and visual …
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Venetian Sunk-panel Bindings: A Sixteenth century Structure and Production
… most elaborately decorated examples of luxury bookbinding ever produced in Venice. This thesis examines how Venetian sunk-panel bindings were manufactured, how their structure and finishing evolved over time, and the extent to which they can be considered standardised. The contents of volumes …
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A New Edition Of The Worchester "soul's Address To The Body"
… were trimmed and used as stiffening in another bookbinding. It was not reassembled until the early nineteenth century.;The introductory portion of the edition begins with a description of the MS. that concentrates particularly on the last four leaves, ff. 63-66, which contain the "Soul's …
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Manuscript-Waste Fragments: Identifying the bindings from which they were removed
… to make, among many other things, elements of bookbindings. In later centuries, these fragments were often extracted. This has resulted in bindings lacking key elements of their structure and fragments lacking a localizable context that might suggest when and possibly where their source …
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Bindings of Baskerville: Study of the bindings found on John Baskerville’s editions in the British Isles and abroad (18th-19th century)
The thesis examines the different types of bindings found on John Baskerville’s editions from a material perspective, to understand the market for his editions in the British Isles and abroad from the middle of the 18th century to the first quarter of the 19th century. This project first focuses on …
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Virginia Woolf: The Bookbinder and the Bibliophile
<p>The triumph of Virginia Woolf’s career as a novelist is one of the most famous stories of the 20th century. Her career as a publisher of her home-grown Hogarth Press is a little less widely acknowledged. But Virginia Woolf is known to have engaged herself for many hours folding, stapling, sewing …
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One, and The Same.
<p>This thesis supports the Master of Fine Arts exhibition at the B. Carroll Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, from March 18<sup>th</sup> through May 1<sup>st<sup>, 2008. The exhibition is comprised of fourteen sculptures, which are presented on pedestals or mounted on the wall. The …
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TRANSFORMACE INDUSTRIÁLNÍHO OBJEKTU KOTELNY BÝVALÉHO TOVÁRNÍHO AREÁLU VLNĚNA V BRNĚ NA ULICI MLÝNSKÁ.
Projekt resocializačného centra pracuje s myšlienkou terapie prácou a postupnej integrácie človeka späť do spoločnosti. Návrh vytvára prostredie, v ktorom sa proces obnovy neodohráva izolovane, ale prostredníctvom každodenných aktivít, remeselnej tvorby a kontaktu s verejnosťou. Manuálna práca …