Main entry:

Levarie, Norma, author.

Title & Author:

The art & history of books / by Norma Levarie ; with a foreword by Nicolas Barker.

Publication:

New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press ; London : The British Library, 1995.
New York, NY : Distributed in the USA by Lyons & Burford, Publishers
©1968

Description:

xx, 315 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Originally published: New York : J. H. Heineman, 1968. With new foreword.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Origins -- Greece -- Rome -- Byzantium -- Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts -- Carolingian and Romanesque manuscripts -- Gothic manuscripts -- Renaissance manuscripts -- The beginning of printing. Block books -- Gutenberg -- Fust and Schoeffer -- The fifteenth century. Germany -- Italy -- France -- The Netherlands -- England -- Spain -- The sixteenth century. Italy -- Germany -- France -- The Netherlands -- Spain -- England -- The seventeenth century. The eighteenth century. The nineteenth century -- The twentieth century.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

The Art & History of Books is a tightly written and lavishly illustrated panorama of book design from its earliest history to recent years. Tracing the history of fine books against a background of changing patrons, improving technology, religious and social change, and the state of the arts throughout the world, this volume encompasses both illustrated and unillustrated books with a breadth of detail not found in any other work. With 176 facsimile pages from books of unusual beauty or interest, many of them photographed especially for this volume, The Art & History of Books is more than a valuable reference source: it is a perfect example of expert design, cogent description, and relevant illustration.

ISBN:

1884718027
9781884718021
1884718035 (pbk.)
9781884718038 (pbk.)
0712303944 (British Library pbk.)
9780712303941 (British Library pbk.)

Subject:

Bibel Ester
Books History.
Printing History.
Illustration of books.
Books, Illustrated history
Printing history
Livres Histoire.
Imprimerie Histoire.
Illustration des livres.
illustration (process)
Books.
Printing.
Buchmalerei
Geschichte
Buch
Boeken.
Esthetische ervaring.
Illustration of books History.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Barker, Nicolas, writer of foreword.
Oak Knoll Press, publisher.
British Library, publisher.

Art and history of books

Holdings:

Location: Library main 82140
Call No.: ID Z4.L4; ID:95-B2876
Status: Available