Studies in the history of bookbinding.

List of illustrations -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Pt. I. Why Bookbinding? -- 1. Bookbinding and the History of Books -- 2. Some Bookbinders' Price Lists of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Pt. II. Bookbinding: A Dead Craft? -- 3. A Binding by Paul Kersten, 1900 -- 4. A Binding by W. T. Walker, 1909 -- 5. The Thomas Harrison Memorial Competition, 1955-1975: A Record -- 6. Modern Bookbindings Acquired by the British Library, 1974-1983 -- 7. A Binding by Pierre-Lucien Martin, 1961 -- Pt. III. The Late Medieval Tradition in Bookbinding -- 8. English Decorated Bookbindings of the Fifteenth Century -- 9. A Binding by the Scales Binder, 1456-65 -- 10. An Oxford Binding, c. 1480 -- 11. A Binding by the Crucifer Binder, c. 1505 -- 12. Monasteries and Dragons -- 13. Influences from the Netherlands on Bookbinding in England during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries -- 14. A Franconian Binding, c. 1475 -- 15. A Binding made at Coesfeld, c. 1478 -- 16. A German Binding, c. 1485 -- 17. A Binding from Hamersleben, c. 1510 -- 18. A Binding made at Klus, 1526 -- Pt. IV. Gold-tooled Bindings -- 19. A Spanish Mudejar Binding of the End of the Fifteenth Century -- 20. A Binding by Maestro Luigi, c. 1547 -- 21. A Binding by Thomas Kruger, 1573 -- 22. A Binding by Jean de Planche, c. 1570 -- 23. A London Binding, c. 1638 -- 24. A Binding, probably made in Amsterdam, c. 1670 -- 25. A Binding by the Charity School Binder, c. 1670-73 -- 26. A Binding by Alexander Ogstoun, c. 1680 -- 27. A Binding by William Cox, 1684 -- 28. A Binding, possibly made by Thomas Norris, 1685 -- 29. An Amsterdam Binding, c. 1700 -- 30. A Binding by the Geometrical Compartment Binder, c. 1703 -- 31. A Middelburg Binding, c. 1750-58 -- 32. A Binding by Christiaan Micke, c. 1755 -- 33. An Eton Binding of the 1760s by Roger Payne -- 34. A Binding by Roger Payne, 1796 -- 35. A Binding by Devers, c. 1770-83 -- 36. A Binding by James Scott, c. 1779 -- 37. A Binding by James Campbell, 1781 -- 38. A London Rococo Binding, 1782 -- 39. A Binding by Gabriel de Sancha, c. 1790 -- 40. An Irish Binding by William McKenzie, 1784 -- 41. A Binding by Bartholomew Frye, c. 1820 -- 42. A Binding by Thomas Mullen of Dublin, c. 1827-30 -- 43. A Binding by Archibald MacLiesh, 1837 -- 44. A Binding by M. M. Holloway, c. 1862 -- 45. A Binding by Westleys & Co., 1864 -- Pt. V. Unusual Materials -- 46. The Olga Hirsch Collection of Decorated Papers -- 47. Ferrarese Woodcut Bindings of the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries -- 48. An English Woodcut Binding, 1647 -- 49. An English Paper Binding, c. 1698 -- 50. A Parisian Paper Binding, c. 1781 -- 51. A Sienese Panel, 1488 -- 52. A Pair of Bookcovers of the Late Nineteenth Century by I. F. Joni -- Pt. VI. Collectors and Collections -- 53. Bookbinding Patronage in England -- 54. Some Bindings for Foreign Students in Sixteenth-Century Paris -- 55. A Binding by the Du Saix Master for Jean Grolier, c. 1538 -- 56. A Binding by the King Edward and Queen Mary Binder, London, 1552 -- 57. A Binding for Jacques de Malenfant, c. 1560-66 -- 58. Some Bindings for Charles I -- 59. A Binding for Caroline of Ansbach 1722 -- 60. The Henry Davis Collection: The British Museum Gift -- 61. Some Bookbindings in the Herzog August Bibliothek -- Pt. VII. Preserving the Past -- 62. The Binding Historian and the Book Conservator -- 63. Preserving Books and their History -- 64. Medieval Painted Book Edges -- Index of Binders -- Index of Owners.