Papers of Giles Barber relating to research for The James A. De Rothschild Bequest at Waddesdon Manor. Printed Books and Bookbindings (Aylesbury: The Rothschild Foundation, 2013), 1989-2007 and n.d. [c.1975-2010]

File

MS. 9101/15

Held in our offsite storage facility

Comprises:

'W[addesdon] French Binders, Register and Binder Index', list of binding attributions, notes on binders and bindings, and related papers, 1989-1999 and n.d. [c.1975-2000]
'Non-French Waddesdon binders', lists of non-French bindings, draft 'Chapter Thirteen: Bindings (other than French ones) at Waddesdon', photocopies of bindings, and rubbings of detail of bindings, n.d. (c.2000)
notes on bindings at Waddesdon Manor and some rubbings of bindings, 1991-1995
'Waddesdon top ten', lists of items at Waddesdon Manor with notes on bindings and other features, arranged by Waddesdon Manor references, and notes under a heading, 'The Eighteenth Century Top Twenty', n.d. [c.1995]
'Myosotis', notes and images relating to flower tools on bindings at Waddesdon Manor and associated papers, 2007 and n.d. [c.2006-2007]
'Ch[apter] 13 Frame elements / plaques', draft text, 'Eleven: Blocks and the Early Industrialisation of Gilding', photocopies of frame elements on bindings, and related papers, n.d. [c.2010]

Dates

1 box (6 folders)

MS. 9101/15

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