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Edith Diehl (18761955) was one of the worlds foremost practitioners of traditional bookbinding and an exceptionally able teacher. From the vantage point of a lifetimes experience, she gives todays bookbinders a historical survey of this centuries-old art and an eminently practical guide.
Nearly one half of the encyclopedic volume is devoted to an overview of the historical development of bookbinding. The author shows how the codex form of the book became identified with the Christian era, how bookbinding became a craft and trade in the 15th century, and how the production and distribution of books shifted from the monasteries and universities to the illustrious printer-publishers of the 15th and 16th centuries. She describes various bookbinding practices such as sewing, the use of boards and leathers, hand versus machine binding, cased books, etc. And she examines in depth the different national styles of book decoration in Italy, France, England, Germany, North America, and other countries, and the specific contributions of such influential bookbinders as Jean Grolier, Thomas Mahieu, Le Gascon, Samuel Mearne, Roger Payne, Jacob Krause, Edmund Ranger, and John Ratcliff. Ninety-two full-page plates provide visualization of certain key points and, above all, numerous examples of the finest decorated bindings.
Edith Diehl then guides the reader through more than 400 profusely illustrated pages on the craft of hand bookbinding. She details and illustrates the steps involved in the nearly 30 necessary binding operations: collating and paging, pulling and removing glue, guarding and mending, pressing, sewing, backing, lacing-in, headbanging, lining up back, casing texts in protective cover, covering, cutting inside margins and filling in, and many more. In addition she conveys much useful information on such ancillary topics as doublures, fly-leaves, half bindings, limp bindings, vellum bindings, slipcases, repairing old bindings, cleaning and washing papers, materials (leather, paper, gold leaf, glue, paste), finishing tools, tooling, lettering, etc. The 242 illustrations that accompany this book-within-a-book are unmatched for economy and clarity.
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St. Jerome.
ITS BACKGROUND
AND
TECHNIQUE
BY EDITH DIEHL
TWO VOLUMES BOUND AS ONE
VOLUME ONE
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.
NEW YORK
This Dover edition, first published in 1980, is an unabridged and corrected republication in a single volume of the work originally published by Rinehart & Company, Inc., in 1946 in two volumes.
International Standard Book Number: eISBN 13: 978-0-486-15614-9
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 80-66958
Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc.
31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501
I N my List of Illustrations acknowledgment has been made of the source of each reproduction found in Volume I. To the owners and custodians of the bindings and other objects illustrated I wish to express my thanks and appreciation for their courtesy in allowing these reproductions. I am especially indebted to Mr. Karl Kup, Curator of the Spencer Collection of The New York Public Library, to Miss Belle da Costa Greene, Director of The Pierpont Morgan Library, to Mr. William H. Forsyth, Associate Curator of the Medival Department of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, to Dr. M. S. Dimand, Curator of the Department of Near Eastern Art of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and to Miss Clara L. Penny, Bibliographer of The Hispanic Society of America, for their co-operation in assisting me to locate in this country particular examples of objects of historic and artistic importance which I desired to reproduce. To my critical reader of Volume I, Mr. Karl Kup, I am deeply indebted for constructive suggestions and for his untiring assistance. I am likewise indebted to Mrs. Laurence Prendergast for her assistance in correcting my text, and to Mrs. Edna M. Kaula for her painstaking accuracy in executing the drawings for the illustrations of Volume II.
E.D.
1946
[The illustrations to volume one will be found following the combined text of both volumes.]
Frontispiece: St. Jerome in His Study. A painting in the Detroit Institute of Arts, by Jan van Eyck and Petrus Christus, dated 1442.
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St. Jerome, Leben der heiligen Altvter. Strassbourg, ca. 1482.
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Michael Neander, Sanctae linguae Hebraeae Erotemata.... A
Michaele Neandro Sorauiense edita. Basileae, Bartholomoeus Franco, 1567.
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11. 16th century German panel-stamped binding. Brown calf cover. Front cover with panel representing the Crucifixion. Legend at bottom of panel:Omnis quit credit in me non moretur.
Adam Walasser, Kunst wol zu sterben. Dillingen, Sebaldus Mayer, 1570.
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St. Augustine, De Civitate Dei. Italian manuscript, 15th century.
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Firdausi, Shah-Nameh. Persian manuscript, 1614.
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Battista Agnese, Portolano Atlas manuscript. Italy, ca. 1550-1560.
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Aristotle, Opera, Vol. 2. 1497.
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Leandro Alberti, Historia de Bologna. Bologna (?), B. Bonardo, 1541.
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Plutarch, Opera. Basle, 1541.
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Missale secundum ritum Romane curie. Venice, Antonius de Zanchis, 1505.
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Molinaeus, C., Tractatus de origine... Francorum. Lyons, 1564.
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Pontificate.... Lyons, 1511.
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Theophrastus (in Greek). Venice, Aldus, 1497.
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Leon Batista Alberti, LArchitettura. Firenze, 1550.
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LOffice de la Vierge Marie. Paris (1587)-1588.
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Novum Testamentum (in Greek). Lyons, 1550.
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Offices of the Virgin. Antwerp, 1575.
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Grotius, De lure Belli Ae Pacis. Amsterdam, 1613.
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Heures presentes Madame la Dauphine. Paris, Theodore de Hansy, 1745(?).
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Boccaccio, Decameron. Florence, Guinta, 1527.
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Petrus de Monte, De Potestate Romani Pontificis. Rome, 1475.
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Jost Amman, Gynaeceum. Frankfurt, Sigismund Feyerabend, 1586.
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