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Bookbinding 2000
Conference Proceedings
A Conference Celebrating the Installation and Opening of the Bernard C. Middleton Collection of Books on Bookbinding, June 1–3, 2000
February 2002 release!
In June 2000 the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection hosted over 400 guests for a highly successful conference, exhibition, and gala in honor of Bernard C. Middleton's contributions to the art of bookbinding, and RIT's acquisition of Mr. Middleton's outstanding book collection. Some of the world's foremost scholars and bookbinders presented a series of stimulating talks and detailed demonstrations at the event. This publication gathers the content of the six conference lectures into a fine volume with full-color illustrations.
Contents:
Deborah Evetts, Drue Heinz Conservator, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York: "Coptic Bindings at the Morgan Library: Their History and Preservation"
Bernard Middleton, M.B.E., F.S.A., author and book restorer:"Facsimile Printing for Antiquarian Books"
Philip Smith, M.B.E., distinguished book artist: "Four Levels of Book Art Making"
Marianne Tidcombe, scholar, author of "Women Binders, 1880–1920": "Women Bookbinders in Britain before the First World War"
Peter Waters, former Conservation Officer of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.: "The Preservation of Library Materials in the Electronic Age"
Mirjam Foot, scholar, former Director of Collections and Preservation at the British Library, London, England: "Sixteenth Century Influences on English Bookbinding"
From top: cover; B. Middleton examining a facsimiled plate; Books improperly stored as illustrated by P. Water; Sarah Prideaux's 1902 binding for "The Rubaiyat", as featured in M. Tidcombe's paper; P. Smith's binding for "L'Infinito".
Images © the respective authors.
Special Offer! Order Bookbinding 2000 Proceedings and Highlights from the Middleton Collection for $60
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