Buchbinder-Philosophie ….

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Creator

Zeidler, Johann Gottfried.

Title

Buchbinder-Philosophie ….

Coverage

Magdeburg

Publisher

Rengerische Buchhandlung

Date

1708

Description

The Germans were the first to publish technical manuals of bookbinding, and this example is the earliest known. The work includes four engraved illustrations of binding tools and techniques, as well as a number of woodcut figures in the text; but the most striking plate is the allegorical frontispiece, which follows the transformation of a ‘naked’ pile of printed sheets into a stoutly and beautifully-clad volume.

Source

Purchased in 2004.