Humanists and Bookbinders; The Origins and Diffusion of the Humanistic Bookbinding 1459-1559, with a Census of Historiated Plaquette and Medallion Bindings of the Renaissance
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1992). Hardcover. Folio size, 296 pp., with prospectus. The third quarter of the 15th century saw a seismic shift in how books were bound; influenced by a small group of antiquaries and scribes centred in Padua, binders began to replace the old style of binding in..... More