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.