Dataset

Selected edge painting on British Library printed books: A work in progress

Pubblico Deposited

Creator
  • Marks, P.J.M.
2022

Abstract
  • Bookbindings were (and are) sometimes decorated via painting the edges of the leaves, usually but not exclusively, the fore edges of text blocks. The painting can be visible when the book is closed, or hidden beneath a layer of gold, when the edges have been gilt. This dataset covers examples on the Library’s printed book collections (mainly works published in Britain but some European). It refers to/links to the British Library’s Image Database of Bookbindings; the Library’s Explore catalogue; Jeff Weber, Annotated Dictionary of Fore-Edge Painting Artists and Binders (Los Angeles: Jeff Weber Rare Books, 2010): Miriam M Foot The Henry Davis Gift: a collection of bookbindings : Volume II. A catalogue of North-European bindings (London, British Library, 1983) & The Henry Davis Gift: A Collection of Bookbindings, vol. iii: A Catalogue of South European Bindings (London: The British Library; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2010). Not every item has been catalogued in the Library’s Explore catalogue and many have restricted access due to the fragility of the book structures.

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Edge_painting_on_selected_BL_printed_bookbindings._In_progress..xlsx 2022-09-27 Pubblico 41 KB

Metadata

Resource Type
  • Dataset
Creator
  • Marks, P.J.M.
Date published
  • 2022
Institution
  • British Library
Organisational unit
  • Printed Heritage Collections
Version
  • 1
Publisher
  • British Library
Place of publication
  • London, UK
Official URL
Licence
  • CC BY-NC 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial
Rights statement
DOI
  • 10.23636/yjj9-md31
Parola chiave
Additional Information
  • This dataset is a work in progress and will continue to be updated. Decorated edges are often added to bindings which contain several religious texts bound together, for example a Book of Common Prayer and a Book of Psalms. These texts are recorded separately in the Explore catalogue and have an extra number added to the shelf mark eg (1) and (2). They can be more easily identified by the use of a wild card * after the shelf mark rather than including the number in brackets in a search.