'Binding XVIII my notes': papers of Giles Barber relating to eighteenth century French bookbinding, 1970-2000 and n.d. [c.1970-2000]
File
MS. 9101/54
Comprises:
- 'F[rame] E[lements], Plaques etc.', notes, articles and images relating to the use of decorative blocks to create frames, and octavo format plaques, in the decoration of bindings, 1970-1995 and n.d. [c.1995]
- notes relating to frames and rolls and 17th century bookbinding tools, 1998 and n.d. [c.1998]
- 'Flowers with dots', notes relating to the use of binders' gilding tools to produce flowers with dots on stems, and related papers and images, n.d. [c.1995-2000]
- 'The Galantaris style, the lobes and squares style', 1993-1995 and n.d. [c.1995]
- papers and images relating to the techniques of tesselation and 'à répétition', and mosaic patterns, 1996-1998 and n.d. [c.1998]
- 'Not Mosaic Bindings', images, most marked 'Not mosaic', and notes, including notes on 'The whirling wheel pattern' and 'Geometric spine panels', 1999 and n.d. [c.1999]
- 'Waddesdon dentelles', lists of dentelle bindings at Waddesdon Manor and related papers, n.d. [c.1970-1995]
- notes relating to doublures and linings, gold type end leaves, and flat spines, n.d. [c.1995]
- 'Douceur', papers relating to the work of Louis Douceur (1721-1769), bookbinder, including notes on his use of tools and his bookbinder's ticket, n.d. [c.1970-1995]. Some notes are apparently not by Barber, but may be by [Henry] Graham Pollard (1903–1976), bookseller and bibliographer.
- 'Duseuil', papers relating to the work of Augustin Duseuil (1673-1746), bookbinder, n.d. [c.1995]
- notes relating to the work of [Louis-François] Le Monnier (fl.1737-1776) and other members of his family, bookbinders, n.d. [c.1995]
- 'Bindings signed by lesser binders', copies of images from sale catalogues and notes of binders' names, n.d. [c.1995]
- 'Livre du Roi', notes and images relating to André Campra, Motets Pour la Chapelle du Roy (Paris, 1735), printed for Louis XV, 1993 and n.d. [c.1993]
- 'The Comte du Nord', correspondence and papers relating to bindings in the libraries of Grand Duke Paul of Russia (1756-1801), 'le Comte du Nord', later Emperor of Russia, 1999 and n.d. [c.1999]
- 'Prediger', papers relating to Christoph Ernst Prediger's Der Buchbinder und Futteralmacher (1741-1753), the first professional publication on bookbinding in German, 2000 and n.d. [c.2000]
- 'Binding sections, used notes', notes and images relating to bookbinding terminology, tools, doublures, and other subjects, n.d. [c.1999]
Dates
- 1970-2000 and n.d. [c.1970-2000]
Extent
1 box (16 folders)
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. 9101/54
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Contact:
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk