Studies in the History of Bookbinding : Selected Studies

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 English bookbinding marked a pioneer effort to trace the development of the art of binding in early medieval England, and remain the fundamental introduction to the subject.Similarly, his celebrated study of blind-stamped panels in the English Renaissance book-trade has become a classic.The author's interests also extended to French bindings, and his work on Parisian bookbinding in the first quarter of the sixteenth century is of great importance; it is reprinted here with a number of his other studies on Grolier bindings. The collection of these articles in one volume, with an introduction by A.R.A.Hobson, represents not only a valuable introduction to the work of one of the major authorities on English bookbinding, but also a compendium of some of the most outstanding contributions to the subject.