Books at Virginia: Rare Book School Winter 1998

January Session
Monday 5 January - Friday 9 January 1998

11	European Bookbinding, 1500-1800. How bookbinding in the post-medieval period developed to meet the demands placed on it by the growth of printing: techniques and materials employed to meet these demands; the development of temporary bindings (for example, pamphlets and publishers' bindings); the emergence of structures usually associated with volume production in the C19; the dating of undecorated bindings; the identification of national and local binding styles. Instructor: Nicholas Pickwoad. See Extended Course Description.


12	Book Illustration to 1890. The identification of illustration processes and techniques, including woodcut, etching, engraving, stipple, aquatint, mezzotint, lithography, wood engraving, steel engraving, process relief, collotype, photogravure, and color printing. The course will be taught almost entirely from the extensive Book Arts Press files of examples of illustration processes. As part of the course, students will make their own etchings, drypoints, and relief cuts in supervised laboratory sessions. Offered again in the March session. Instructor: Terry Belanger. See Extended Course Description.

March Session
Monday 9 March - Friday 13 March 1998

31 Book Illustration to 1890 (Session II). For description, see number 12. Instructor: Terry Belanger.
See Extended Course Description.

32 Publishers' Bookbindings, 1830-1910. The study of publishers' bookbindings, chiefly in the US, but with frequent reference to England, and occasional reference to Continental developments. Topics: the rise of the edition binder; design styles and how they developed; new techniques, machines, and materials introduced in the C19; the identification of rarities; the physical description of bindings; the preservation of publishers' bindings. The course will make extensive use of the Book Arts Press's notable collection of C19 and early C20 binding examples. Instructor: Sue Allen.
See Extended Course Description.

31	Book Illustration to 1890 (Session II). For description, see number 12. Instructor: Terry Belanger. See Extended Course Description.


32	Publishers' Bookbindings, 1830-1910. The study of publishers' bookbindings, chiefly in the US, but with frequent reference to England, and occasional reference to Continental developments. Topics: the rise of the edition binder; design styles and how they developed; new techniques, machines, and materials introduced in the C19; the identification of rarities; the physical description of bindings; the preservation of publishers' bindings. The course will make extensive use of the Book Arts Press's notable collection of C19 and early C20 binding examples. Instructor: Sue Allen. See Extended Course Description.