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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Lundblad, Kristina (1965-....)
Titre(s) : Bound to be modern [Texte imprimé] : publishers' cloth bindings and the material culture of the book, 1840-1914 / Kristina Lundblad ; translated by Alan Crozier
Traduction de : Om betydelsen av böckers utseende
Publication : New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press, 2015
Description matérielle : 336 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color charts ; 26 cm
Comprend : Prelude: A hundred years of bookbinding ; Introduction: The book, modernity, and
material culture ; Part I. Book culture in transformation: Chapter 1. From markets
to the market. Binding practices. Publishing. The retail book trade. The retail book
trade in Stockholm. Development from the 1870s. Publication output. Conditions in
the book market around 1900. Chapter 2. Changing technology. Cloth. Casing. The blocking
press and the importance of aesthetics. How the relationship between publisher and
edition bookbinder reflects the relationship between economics and aesthetics. From
craft to industry: The manufacture of bindings. Folding and gathering the sheets.
Rolling. Sawing the back. Sewing. Endpapers and edges. Decorating the edges, rounding,
and backing. Case making. Blocking. Casing-in. Blocks for decorating the case in the
blocking press.. The growth of Swedish edition binding. Franz Beck. Isak Elkan. Peder
Herzog. Herzog's machinery.. Structural changes in Swedish bookbinding. "The true
principles of industrial art": Some aspects of the effects of industrial production.
What distinguishes industry from craft? Chapter 3. The emergence of modern bookbinding
practice: Publishers' binding and their form and use in quantitative terms. Source
material on the occurrence of publishers' bindings. Bibliographies. Publishers' caralogues..
Trends in publishers' bindings, 1830-1910. Cloth bindings. Binding cases. "Wrappers".
Genres. Prices. Summing up the findings ; Part II. Modernity and material culture:
Chapter 4. Title-specific bindings and the art of mass-producing the unique. The
emergence of title-specific bindings. Chapter 5. Cloth bindings, their design and
relationship to modern consumer society. Ornamentation: Tradition and innovation.
A new world of pictures. The significance of pictures. Packaged modernity. "Now,"
novelty, and emotion. Chapter 6. Using books. The book as furniture, the home as
narrative ; Appendix A: Herzog's technical equipment: Machinery before 1889 and a
selection of purchases, 1889-1895 and 1905-1918 ; Appendix B: Material for the study
of publishers' catalogues in chapter 3. Categories and binding types that occur in
the study and in the table column headings. Genre classifications. Other comments.
Catalogues included in the study. Tables.
Note(s) : Translated from the Swedish. - "First published in 2010 as Om betydelsen av böckers utseende by Rámus © Kristina
Lundblad."--title page verso. - Includes bibliographical references and index
"An interdisciplinary study on the emergence and function of publishers' cloth bindings
in the 19th century"
Sujet(s) : Livres -- Industrie et commerce -- Suède -- Histoire
Reliure -- Suède -- Histoire
Livres -- Décoration -- Suède -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
070.509 485 (23e éd.) = Édition - Suède
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781584563136. - ISBN 1584563133 (rel)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44361078z
Notice n° :
FRBNF44361078
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