For the Love of the Binding: Studies in Historical Bookbinding Presented to Mirjam Foot

Table of Contents:
Mirjam Foot, Robin Myers; a romanesque blind-stamped binding at Queen's College, Oxford, Michael Gullick; medieval manuscript leaves as publishers wrappers in the 1920s, Christopher de Hamel; fragments found in bindings and their role as bibliographical evidence, Lotte Hellinga; Crutched Friars, lambs, roses and crosses - Brussels incunabules on the shelves of the Crutched Friars at the turn of the 16th century, Elly Cocx-Indestrege; the advent of gold tooling in English bookbinding and the intermediary role of Thomas Linacre, Giles Barber, plaquette and medallion bindings - a second supplement, Anthony Hobson; Commissioni Dogali - Venetian bookbindings in the British Library, Laura Nuovoloni; some unrecorded 16th-century French bookbindings, Nicolas Barker; tacketed bindings - a hundred years of European bookbinding, Nicholas Pickwoad; bookbinding in Cambridge in the second half of the 16th century, David Pearson; 17th-century Cambridge pyxides, Elisabeth Leedham Green; a Bible bound in 1661 by Patrick Erskine for the Earl and Countess of Caithness, John Morris; putting book structures within a historical context - a note on 17th and 18th-century paper bindings in the Wolf Collection, Staats-und Universitatsbibliotek, Hamburg, Vanessa C. Marshall; it glitters and is more than gold - fore-edge paintings in the Dutch Royal Library, Jan Storm van Leeuwen; the autograph journal of a journeyman bookbinder, Alexander Troschem of Nuremberg (1758-69), David Paisey; Scott bindings on the 1770 Foulis Milton, Richard Ovenden; John Whittaker's edition of the Magna Carta, its printing, and his bindings on the Wormsley copies, Bryan Maggs; four bindings and a will - Thomas Jones Ellis and some notes on 19th-century signed wills, John Collins; John Hannett's Bibliopegia and Inquiry, and Salt Brassington's revision, Paul Morgan; the bookbindings of Benjamin West (1804-83), Esther Potter; a mid-19th-century book-trade binder - Florent Pollender and the firm of Hanicq-Dessain in Mechelen, Christian Coppen; the book cover designs of William Harry Rogers, Edmund M.B. King; the mysterious Mr de Sauty, Marianne Tidcombe; secret, loud and clear, Anna Simoni; the Keatley Trust Collection of modern British bindings, Dorothy A Harrop; a Jean de Gonet binding at the British Library, P.J.M. Marks; bibliography of the writings of Mirjam Foot.