Meeting by accident : selected historical bindings / Julia Miller ; drawings, Pamela Spitzmueller ; video (on DVD), John R.F. Allison.

Julia Miller's second book grew out of the experience of writing Books Will Speak Plain: A Handbook for Identifying and Describing Historical Bindings, now a recognized classic text on the subject. Meeting by Accident: Selected Historical Bindings is a very different sort of book, however. The bindi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Julia (Conservator) (Author)
Corporate Author: Legacy Press (Publisher)
Other Authors: Spitzmueller, Pamela J. (Illustrator)
Baker, Cathleen (Book designer)
Allison, John R.F (Videographer)
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor, Michigan : The Legacy Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Bookbinding > History.
Bookbinding > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Bookbinding.
Bucheinband.
Handbooks and manuals.
History.
Genre:
Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Handbooks and manuals.
History.
Physical Description:xi, 696 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm + 1 DVD-ROM (sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Variant Title:
Selected historical bindings
Format: Video DVD
Contents:
  • Beyond tree calf: bindings decorated by staining
  • Not altogether unpleasing: the experiment with canvas bindings
  • Wrapped with care: overcovers
  • Good enough for Galileo: books made for scholars
  • A gift from the desert: a report on the Nag Hammadi codices / co-authored with Pamela Spitzmueller
  • A model approach.