B-95. Bookbinding for Book Historians - Advance Reading List

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  • Primary Readings

    Abbott, Jacob. The Harper Establishment; or, The Story of the Story Books. NY: Harper, 1855. Pages 130–155.

     

    Hill, Jonathan E. “From Provisional to Permanent: Books in Boards, 1790-1840.” The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographic Society 21, no. 3, Sept. 1999: 247–273.

     

    Pickwoad, Nicholas. “Onward and Downward: How Binders Coped with the Printing Press before 1800.” In A Millennium of the Book: Production, Design, and Illustration in Manuscript and Print, 900–1900, edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1994: 61–106.

  • Suggested Readings

    Bainbridge, Abigail. “Bookbinding According to Diderot: An Exploration of Eighteenth-Century French Binding.” Journal of Paper Conservation, 16 (2): 67–73.

     

    Embree, Anna. “Best Practices for Historic Model Work.” In Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Vol. 9. Ed. Julia Miller. Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2025: 480–498.

     

    Middleton, Bernard. A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique. Fourth Edition. New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 2008: 1–164.