The Arcadian Library: Bindings and Provenance

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2014
Contributors Editor: Giles Mandelbrote
Editor: Willem de Bruijn
Language
English
Number of Pages
336 pp.
Publisher
Arcadian Library
City
London, England
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Region
Europe
Middle East
Library Type
Private/Personal Library
Special Libraries
ISBN
9780199654819
Annotation

The Arcadian Library in London collects works on the relationship between Europe and the Middle East. 

Contents: 

  • Introduction / Giles Mandelbrote
  • Princes, Ministers and Scholars: Some non-English Provenances in the Arcadian Library / Alastair Hamilton
  • Some Earlier British Owners; of Books in the Arcadian Library and their Marks of Ownership and Use / Giles Mandelbrote
  • Three Bindings à la fanfare and the Origins of the Fanfare Style / Anthony Hobson
  • Selected European Decorated Bookbindings in the Arcadian Library / P.J.M. Marks
  • The Ottoman World of Abdallah Zakher: The Bindings of the Melkite Monastery at Shuwayr in the Arcadian Library / John-Paul Ghobrial
  • The Structures and Materials of Commercial Bookbindings in the Arcadian Library / Nicholas Pickwood