Victorian Publishers’ Bindings - Books and Articles Referred to, with Abbreviated Titles.

 

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Victorian Publishers’ Bindings

 

Books and Articles Referred to, with Abbreviated Titles.

 

 

Most of the entries in this list were printed in my 2003 bibliography [Edmund M B King]  Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings 1830-1880. Additions have been made since 2003, and these are not proofread.

 

 

Abbott, Jacob. The Harper Establishment. How books are made. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. [Reprinted by Oak Knoll Press, 2001]

 

 

Allen, Sue and Gullans, Charles. DCA.

Allen, Sue and Gullans, Charles. Decorated cloth in America. Publishers’ bindings, 1840-1910. [Los Angeles] : UCLA, Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1994. Pp. 45-51 has a Checklist of book covers carrying John Feely’s signature.

 

Arman, Mark. The story of the electrotypes used to illustrate Sir John Tenniel’s drawings of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, illustrated with twelve Tenniel drawings printed letter press from electrotypes, created from the original wood engravings, cut by the Dalziel Brothers, c. 1860-1870. Compiled and printed by Mark Arman at the Workshop Press, Hanna’s Bolford Street, Thaxted, Essex, CM6 2PY. Published in 1996.

 

Art Journal Illustrated catalogue; the industry of all nations, 1851. Wood engraved title page of : The Art Journal illustrated catalogue [of] the industry of all nations" [Great Exhibition, 1851]. Decoration is a wood engraving by G. and E. Dalziel, from a drawing by Luke Limner [John Leighton]. Printed by Bradbury and Evans, London . Copy in Manchester Metropolitan University. See:

http://ibs001.colo.firstnet.net.uk/mmu/index.php?a=swish&s=item&key=Wczo3OiJwcmludGVkIjs=&pg=171

 

Atterbury and Wainwright. Pugin. Atterbury, Paul, and Wainwright, Clive, Editors. Pugin. A Gothic passion. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, [1994].

 

Bailes, Susan. Kathleen Ainslie (1858-1936). In: Imaginative Book Illustration Society. Studies in Illustration. No. 66. Summer 2017, pp. 20-39.

 

Ball. VPB.

Ball, Douglas. Victorian publishers’ bindings. London, Library Association, 1985.

 

For descriptive details of the binder’s ticket, see: Ball, Douglas. Victorian publishers’ bindings. London, Library Association, 1985, Appendix E, Nineteenth Century Edition Binders’ Signatures.

 

Ball, App.

Ball, Douglas. A catalogue of the Appleton Collection of Victorian colour printing and signed bindings. [Unpublished?] [College of Librarianship, Aberystwyth, Wales.] 1979.

 

Barber, Rossetti.

Barber, Giles. Rossetti, Ricketts, and Some English Publishers’ Bindings of the Nineties. In: The Library. 5th series.1970. pp.314-330.

 

Barker, Macmillan

Barker, Nicolas. Macmillan: Or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. In: Macmillan: A Publishing Tradition. Edited by Elizabeth James. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2002, pp. 256-265.

 

Bassett V4N

Bassett, Troy J. The Victorian Four-Volume Novel. In: The Library. Seventh series, vol. 17, no. 1, March2016, pp. 67-74.

 

Bigmore, BP

Bigmore, E. C. and Wyman, C. W. H. A Bibliography of Printing. 3 vols in 1. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press & London: The British library, 2001. SBN 1-58456-061-4 [BL shelf mark 2725.g.3235.]

 

 

Brothers Dalziel

Dalziel, George & Dalziel, Edward. The Brothers Dalziel. A record of their Work 1840-1890. London: B. T. Batsford, 1978. [A reprint of the edition of 1901.]

 

Brown & Jones, ES.

Brown, Jane and Jones, Gregory. The English Struwwelpeter and the Birth of International Copyright. In: The Library. Seventh series, vol. 14, no. 4, Dec 2013, pp. 383- 427.

 

Brown & West. WN.

Brown, Jane E. and West, Richard Samuel. William Newman. A Victorian Cartoonist in London and New York. Easthampton, Mass. Periodyssey Press, 2008.

 

 

Buchanan-Brown, BIGC.

Buchanan-Brown, John. The book illustrations of George Cruikshank. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1980.

 

Collins PB

Collins, John. Particular bindings, mostly 19^th century, mostly signed, by some 600 different binders, from 185 locations, mostly London… Catalogue 14 of George Baytun Bath, George Baytun, [2006]. [Unpublished Sale Catalogue.]  

 

Collins, John. Particular bindings, … Catalogue 14 of George Baytun. Bath: George Baytun, [2006], no.

 

 

Cooke, Simon, AWB

Cooke, Simon, ‘An artist whose name is new to us’: Alfred Walter Bayes. In: IBIS Journal 5. Colour and line. Guildford: Imaginative Illustration Book Society, 2014, pp. 92-141.

 

Cooke, Simon, IP

Cooke, Simon. Illustrated periodicals of the 1860s, contexts and collaborations. Pinner; The Private Libraries Association; London: the British Library; Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2010.

 

Daniels, VBI.

Daniels, Morna. Victorian book illustration. London: The British Library, 1988.

 

Darton, CB.

F.J. Harvey Darton. Children’s books in England. Five centuries of social life. 3rd. ed. London, British Library, 1999.

 

de Beaumont, RdeB1.

[Catalogue of] Robin de Beaumont Collection. 1860s Illustrators, Books, Prints and Drawings. Given to the British Museum, Prints & drawings Dept., May 1992.

 

de Beaumont, RdeB2.

Robin de Beaumont Collection. 1860s Illustrators. Books, Drawings & Proofs. Combined 1992 & 1996 Gifts. March 2000. [Compiled by Robin de Beaumont.]

 

de Beaumont, PB.

De Beaumont, Robin. Nineteenth Century Publishers’ Bindings 1820-1900; a brief survey from my shelves. In: The Private Library. Fourth series. Volume 9:1. Spring 1996. 48p.

 

de Beaumont, Robin BT

de Beaumont, Robin. Binders’ Tickets in the Robin de Beaumont Collection of 1860’s Illustrators Books. British Museum Prints & Drawings. Based on the listings in Douglas Ball Victorian Publishers’ Bindings, The Library Association 1985, Appendix E. [Unpublished List.]

 

de Beaumont, Robin SC

de Beaumont, Robin. Sale Catalogue. Robin de Beaumont Book Collection. Victorian Illustrated Books. [Compiled by de Beaumont ca. 2011-2013.] Copy in the British Library shelf mark RF.2017.b.11.

 

de Beaumont, Robin BSC

The Library of the late Robin de Beaumont. Bonhams Auction Catalogue [online sale of 31 January 2024.]

 

 

Darley, BTN.

Darley, Lionel. Bookbinding then and now. A survery of the first hundred and seventy-eight years of James Burn & Company. London: Faber and Faber, 1959.

 

Dodd, DF.

George Dodd. Days at the factories. London, 1843, p.363-384. Article on bookbinding.

The British Library copy is at 787.f.29.

 

 

Dry, JL.

Dry, Graham. John Leighton and bookbinding design in England from 1845 to 1880. Thesis for submission to Institut fur Kunstgeschichte der Universitat Munchen, 1984-85. [Copy at Cambridge University Library. The checklist at the end lists 574 titles with designs by John Leighton.]

 

Eliot. PTBP.

Eliot, Simon. Some patterns and trends in British Publishing 1800-1919. Occasional Papers of the Bibliographical Society, no. 8. London: The Bibliographical Society, 1994.

 

Engen, DVE.

Engen, Rodney K. Dictionary of Victorian engravers, print publishers and their works. . Cambridge : Chadwyck-Healey, 1979.

 

Engen, DVWE

Engen, Rodney K. Dictionary of Victorian wood engravers. Cambridge : Chadwyck-Healey, 1985.

 

Flores, Carol A Hrvol. OJ 

Flores, Carol A Hrvol. Owen Jones. Design, ornament, architecture, and theory in an age of transition. New York, Rizzoli International Publications, 2006.

 

Forrest Reid.

Forrest Reid. Illustrators of the Sixties. London : Faber & Gwyer, 1928. [Reprinted by Dover Publications, New York, 1975.]

 

 

Gaskell, NIB.

Gaskell, Philip. A new introduction to bibliography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972. Table 9, pp.240-244, The Classification of Book-cloth Grains.

 

 

Gleeson White.

Gleeson White, Joseph William. English Illustration “The Sixties”: 1855-70. Westminster : Constable and Co., 1897.

 

Godburn DJ

Godburn, Mark R. Nineteenth Century Dust Jackets. Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 2016.

 

Goldman, Cat1.

Goldman, Paul. Antiquarian Books. Catalogue no.1. [London, 1998.]

 

Goldman, VIB.

Goldman, Paul. Victorian Illustrated Books 1850-1870. The heyday of wood-engraving. The Robin de Beaumont Collection. London, British Museum Press, 1994. Checklist of the de Beaumont Collection, nos. 1-592, pp.126-142.

 

Gray, Eliot Review.

Gray, Beryl. E.M.W. [i.e. Edmund Morison Wimperis.] The stereotyped edition’s title-page vignettes.  Also: Adams, Kathleen. Milly Barton and Emma Gwyther. In: The George Eliot Review. No.29, 1998, pp.52-56; no.30, pp.60-62.

 

Haslam, Malcolm, ACBC

Haslam, Malcolm. Arts and Crafts Book Covers. Shepton Beauchamp, Richard Dennis, 2012.

 

Houfe, Simon, DBBIC.

Houfe,Simon. The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914. Woodbridge, Antique Collectors Club, 1978.

 

Houfe, Simon. The Dictionary of 19^th Century British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists. [Revised edition] [Woodbridge: Antique Collectors Club, [1996].

 

 

Houfe, Simon, AB Houghton

Houfe,Simon. The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914. Woodbridge, Antique Collectors Club, 1978, p. 345.

 

Houfe, Simon, A Hughes

Houfe,Simon. The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914. Woodbridge, Antique Collectors Club, 1978, p. 347-348.

 

 Houfe, Simon, C Keene

Houfe,Simon. The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914. Woodbridge, Antique Collectors Club, 1978.

 

Jones & Brown, WR. Jones, Gregory V. & Brown, Jane E. Victorian Binding Designer WR: William Ralston (1841-1911), not William Harry Rogers. In: The Book Collector, vol. 52, no. 2, Summer 2003, pp. 171-198.

 

Jones, Gregory. William Harry Rogers: Victorian Book Designer and Star of the Great Exhibition. Lewes: Unicorn Publishing, 2023.

 

Jones, Owen. GO.

Jones, Owen. The grammar of ornament. Illustrated by examples from various styles of ornament. One hundred ... plates, drawn on stone by F. Bedford, and printed in colours by Day and Son. London: Day & Son, 1856.

 

King. AECB.

King, Edmund M. B. American edition cloth cover bindings of the 1830s. The bindings of Colton and Jenkins and Benjamin Bradley. In: The Book Collector Vol. 47 no. 2. Summer 1998 pp. 207-219; and In: The Book Collector Vol. 47 no. 3. Autumn 1998 pp. 363-371.

 

King, JL.

King, Edmund M.B. The Book Cover Designs of John Leighton, F.S.A.  In:  The British Library Journal, vol.24, no.2.Autumn 1998. pp. 234-255.

http://www.bl.uk/eblj/1998articles/pdf/article15.pdf

 

 

King, BCDB

King, Edmund M. B. Book cover designs made by Burn for Macmillan: the first forty years. In: The Book Collector, vol. 51, no. 4 winter 2002, pp. 520-530.

 

King, VBDCC.

King, Edmund M.B. Victorian Books with Decorated Cloth Covers. In: Bookbinder. Vol. 10, 1996, pp. 47-67.

 

 

King, VDTB.

King, Edmund M.B.  Victorian decorated trade bindings 1830-1880. London: The British Library, 2003.

 

King, WHR.

King, Edmund M.B. The Book Cover Designs of William Harry Rogers. In: ‘For the Love of the Binding’. Studies in Bookbinding History Presented to Mirjam Foot. [London]: The British Library, 2000, pp.319-328.

 

Korey, Maria Elena. Elegant Editions. Aspects of Victorian Book Design. An exhibition of books selected from the Ruari McLean Collection of Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing in the Robertson Davies Library at Massey College. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Massey College. 19 January-31 March 1995. Toronto: Massey College, 1995.

 

Krupp, Andrea. BEA.

Krupp, Andrea.  Book cloth in England and America 1823-1850. Newcastle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2008.

 

Leathlean, HNH.

Leathlean, Howard. Henry Noel Humphreys and the Getting-Up of Books in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. In: The Book Collector. Vol. 38. no.2. Summer 1989. pp.192-209.

 

Leathlean, Jerrard.

Leathlean, Howard. Paul Jerrard Publisher of ‘Special Presents’. In: The Book Collector Vol. 40. no.2. Summer 1991. pp.169-196.

 

Leighton, SID. 1852.

Leighton, John. Suggestions in design...London: David Bogue, 1852-53. Issued originally in parts.

 

Leighton, SID. 1880.

Leighton, John. Suggestions in design... London: Blackie, [1880]. The USA edition, New York: D. Appleton, 1881 is reprinted as 1,100 designs and motifs from historic sources. New York: Dover Publications Inc. [1995]. The plate numbers cited are the same for the English edition of 1880.

 

Livingstone & Parry IAC

Bilclough, Annemaris Riding. Arts and Crafts Book Arts. In: Livingstone, Karen & Parry, Linda (Editors) International Arts and Crafts. London: V & A Publications, 2005, pp.82-88.

 

Martin, Photos. Martin, Elizabeth. Collecting and preserving old Photographs. London, Collins, 1988.

 

McLean, Cundall.

McLean, Ruari. Joseph Cundall. A Victorian publisher. Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1976.

 

McLean, Fawcett.

McLean, Ruari and McLean Antonia. Benjamin Fawcett. Engraver and Colour Printer. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1988. 

 

McLean, VBD.

McLean, Ruari. Victorian book design and colour printing. 2nd edition. [London] Faber & Faber [1972]

 

McLean, VPBB.

McLean, Ruari. Victorian publishers’ book-bindings in cloth and leather. London, Gordon Fraser, 1974.

 

McLean, VPBP.

McLean, Ruari. Victorian publishers’ bookbindings in paper. London: Gordon Fraser, 1983.

 

Milevski. PSB.

Milevski, Robert A primer on signed bindings. In: Suave machanicals: essays on the history of bookbinding vol. 1. Julia Miller (editor) Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2013.

 

Minsky. AABC.

Minsky, Richard. The art of American book covers 1875-1930. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 2010.

 

Mitchell, William Smith. Bookbinder’s Tickets. In: The Durham University Journal vol. XLVI. No.1. (New Series. Vol. XV. No. 1) December 1953.

 

Morris & Levin, APB.

Morris, Ellen K. & Levin, Edward S. The Art of Publishers’ Bookbindings 1815-1915. An Exhibition held at the Grolier Club, New York, 17 May – 19 July 2000. Los Angeles: William Daley Rare Books Ltd, 2000.

 

Morris, Talwin

https://www.fulltable.com/vts/m/tm/menuc.htm

 

Bibliography of Works about Talwin Morris. See:

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fordl/bibliography.html

 

Muir, VIB.

Muir, Percy. Victorian illustrated books. London: B.T. Batsford. [Revised impression. 1985.]

 

Muira, MP.

Muira, Einen. The art of marbled paper. Marbled patterns and how to make them. London: Zaehnsdorf, [1988].

 

Nahum. MVEA

Nahum, Peter. Monograms of Victorian & Edwardian Artists. [London?] Victoria Square Press, 1976. [P&D shelf mark Ns 2.18.]

 

Oldfield, BC.

Oldfield, Philip. From Boards to Cloth: The Development of Publishers’ Bindings in the Nineteenth Century. Guide to an Exhibition at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. July-September 1991. [Toronto, 1991]

 

Otto, OC.

Otto, Calvin P. Only in cloth. Publishers’ Bookbindings 1830-1910. An exhibition from the Collection of Calvin P. Otto on display in the Rotunda of the University of Virginia, 18 September – 22 December 1997. Charlottesville: Book Arts Press, 1998. pp.35-46 has a List of Books in the Exhibition.

 

 

Packer, BVL.

Packer, Maurice. Bookbinders of Victorian London. London: British Library, 1991.

 

Packer, BBI

Packer, Maurice. Bookbinders of the British Isles. A List of [British Library] Pressmarks. Unpublished typescript [London, ca. 1990?]

 

Pantazzi, JL.

Pantazzi, Sybille. John Leighton, 1822-1912. A versatile Victorian designer: his designs for book covers. In The Connoisseur, Vol. 152, April 1963, pp.262-273.

 

Pantazzi, 4D.

Pantazzi, Sybille. Four designers of English publishers’ bindings of the nineties. In: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. 55. 1961. pp. 88-99.

 

 

Penny Magazine. Factory of Westley & Clark

The Penny Magazine. Supplement, vol. xi September 1842), pp. 363-384. Describes the operations of Westley & Clark.

 

Potter. LBT.

Esther Potter. The London Bookbinding Trade: from Craft to Industry. In: The Library Sixth series, Vo. XV, no. 4, Dec. 1993.

 

Ramsden. BUK

Ramsden, Charles. Bookbinders of the United Kingdom (outside London) 1780-1840. London: B. T. Batsford, 1954 (reprinted 1987).  

 

Ramsden. LB

Ramsden, Charles. London Bookbinders 1780-1840. London: B. T. Batsford, 1954 (reprinted 1987). 

 

 

Sadleir, Michael. XIX Century Fiction. A Bibliographical Record based on his own collection. In two volumes. Cambridge, Mass. Maurizi Martino, [1996].

 

Spawn and Kinsella

Spawn, William and Kinsella, Thomas E. Ticketed Bookbindings from Nineteenth-Century Britain. Bryn Mawr [Pennsylvania]: Bryn Mawr College Library; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1999.  

 

 

Suave mechanicals. essays on the history of bookbinding / Julia Miller, editor.

Contributor: Julia Miller (Conservator), editor. Ann Arbor, Michigan : The Legacy Press, 2013- .       2014.b.8 

[Vol. I has: Robert J. Milevski. A Primer on Signed Bindings; Vol. 3 has Arielle Middleman & Todd Pattison.  Benjamin Bradley and the “Profitable Stroke”: Binding Six Months in a Convent and the Need for Copy-Specific Cataloging of Nineteenth-Century Publishers’ Bindings ]

 

 

Tanselle, BDP. G.

Tanselle, Thomas. The bibliographical description of patterns. Studies in Bibliography. Vol. XXIII. 1970. pp. 71-102

 

Tomlinson, Charles. Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts. Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining and Engineering. London: George Virtue, 1854.  

 

Tomlinson, Bookcloth.

Tomlinson, William and Masters, Richard. Bookcloth 1823-1980. A study of the early use and the rise of manufacture Winterbottom’s dominance of the trade in Britain and America produstion methods and costs and the identification of qualities and designs. Stockport: Dorothy Tomlinson, 1996.

 

Toronto, SP. University of Toronto. [Sybille Pantazzi bequest.]

 

Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library at the University of Toronto, John Leighton covers designs, see: https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=34861056@N05&q=john%20leighton

 

 

Waddleton, Norman. The Waddleton Chronology of Books with Colour Illustrations or Decorations, 15^th to 20^th Century. 5^th ed. 1993.

 

Wakeman, Geoffrey. Victorian book illustration. The technical revolution. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1973. 

 

 

Wilson, Frederick J. F. Stereotyping and electrotyping. London: Wyman & Sons, [1880].

 

Wolf, Edwin. From Gothic windows to peacocks : American embossed leather bindings, 1825-1855 / by Edwin Wolf, 2nd. Ed. Philadelphia : Library Company of Philadelphia, 1990. [BL YD.2008.b.1684]

 

 

 

 

Wootton, David. John Leighton, FSA FZS, also known  as ‘Luke Limner’ (1822-1912). In: The Illustrators. The art of British Illustration 1786-2003. London: Chris Beetles Ltd, 2003, pp. 42-43.