Victorian publisher's bookbindings

Saturday, 24 March 2018

Cover designs for works published or printed by Bradbury and Evans.

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The partnership of William Bradbury and Frederick Mullett Evans was well known. The ODNB articles on William Bradbury and Fr...
Friday, 5 January 2018

John Keeley Halswelle - artist and book illustrator

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Portrait from: http://n7.alamy.com/zooms/e028ab6c67d1406588bf90c2e455a585/the-late-mr-keeley-halswelle-artist-ri-and-arsa-d2...
Friday, 8 January 2016

Reginald Knowles and the decoration for Everyman’s Library books

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A slight deviation from Victorian’ bindings, into mass production of edition bindings during the Edwardian period and onwards.  ...
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Edmund M B King
My career at the British Library was from 1975 to 2012. I was head of the BL Newspaper Collections from 1999 to 2012. My bibliography on Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings was published in 2003. A review of it is published in the Victorian web: http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/books/king/kinsella.html All the entries in my 2003 book have been entrered into the BL bookbindings database: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/KeywordSelection.aspx I have catalogued the bindings of the books in the De Beaumont collection in the British Museum (some 400 books and magazines). https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx Many Pinterest Boards at: . https://www.pinterest.co.uk/edmundking/
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