The History of Decorated Bookbinding in England

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
1992
Author
Language
English
Number of Pages
124 pp.
Publisher
Clarendon Press
City
Oxford, England
Region
Chronological Period
ISBN
9780198181828
Annotation
Based on the Lyell Lectures given by Howard Nixon at Oxford in 1979. Traces decorated binding in England from the earliest surviving example, the St Cuthbert Gospel produced just before the end of the seventh century, to the beginning of the Modern Movement in the late 1940s.
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