BOUND TO BE MODERN. Publishers' Cloth Bindings and the Material Culture of the Book, 1840-1914.
Translated by Alan Crozier. Pp. 336, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, the title page printed in red & black, appendices, diagrams, tables, sources, index; cr. 4to; red papered boards, spine lettered in black & white; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, 2015. First edition in English. *Originally published in Sweden in 2010. 'A detailed picture of the design and technology of books, their historical context and cultural significance. The focus is on decorated cloth bindings, the type of binding that, more than any other, conveyed the new pictorial world that came with modernity and helped to make the binding become an essential part of a book' [wrapper blurb]. Item #165823
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