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1990
Journal article
A binding by the Scales Binder, circa 1456-65
THE main centres of English bookbinding during the second half of the fifteenth century were London, Oxford and Cambridge. Although a fair number of plain leather bindings of this period have survived, fewer than a dozen binderies producing tooled leather bindings are known to have started work before 1475. Possibly...Foot, Mirjam M.
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1984
Journal article
Modern bookbindings added to the Department of Printed Books, 1974-1983
The British Library's collection of twentieth-century bookbindings has not received much publicity, overshadowed as it is by the unrivalled collections of bindings from the past. When Howard M. Nixon wrote about the English and foreign bookbindings added to the Department of Printed Books between 1963 and 1974 most emphasis was...Foot, Mirjam M.
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1981
Journal article
The Olga Hirsch collection of decorated papers
In 1962 Mrs. Olga Hirsch, the widow of Paul Hirsch the celebrated music collector, bequeathed to the British Library her collection of decorated papers, consisting of over 3,500 sheets of paper and about 130 books in paper wrappers or with decorated endpapers, as well as her eminently useful small reference...Foot, Mirjam M.
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1977
Journal article
The British bindings in the Henry Davis gift
WHEN Henry Davis, C.B.E. died on 10 January 1977 the majority of his magnificent collection of bookbindings joined those already on exhibition in the British Library. The Gift, which comprises approximately 800 decorated bookbindings and 260 reference books is too extensive and too varied to receive proper justice in a...Foot, Mirjam M.