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Bound to be modern : publishers' cloth bindings and the material culture of the book, 1840-1914 / Kristina Lundblad ; translated by Alan Crozier

Author
Lundblad, Kristina, 1965-
Uniform Title
Om betydelsen av böckers utseende. English
Additional Titles
Publishers' cloth bindings and the material culture of the book, 1840-1914
Published
New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press, 2015.
Edition
First English language edition.
Physical Description
336 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Additional Creators
Crozier, Alan, 1953-

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Contents
Prelude: A hundred years of bookbinding -- Introduction: The book, modernity, and material culture -- Part I. Book culture in transformation: Chapter 1, From markets to the market: Binding practices ; Publishing ; The retail book trade ; The retail book trade in Stockholm ; Development from the 1870s ; Publication output ; Conditions in the book market around 1900 -- Chapter 2, Changing technology: Cloth ; Casing ; The blocking press and the importance of aesthetics ; How the relationship between publisher and edition bookbinder reflects the relationship between economics and aesthetics ; From craft to industry: The manufacture of bindings. Folding and gathering the sheets. Rolling. Sawing the back. Sewing. Endpapers and edges. Decorating the edges, rounding, and backing. Case making. Blocking. Casing-in. Blocks for decorating the case in the blocking press ; The growth of Swedish edition binding. Franz Beck. Isak Elkan. Peder Herzog. Herzog's machinery ; Structural changes in Swedish bookbinding ; "The true principles of industrial art": Some aspects of the effects of industrial production ; What distinguishes industry from craft? -- Chapter 3, The emergence of modern bookbinding practice: Publishers' binding and their form and use in quantitative terms ; Source material on the occurrence of publishers' bindings ; Bibliographies ; Publishers' catalogues ; Trends in publishers' bindings, 1830-1910 ; Cloth bindings ; Binding cases ; "Wrappers" ; Genres ; Prices ; Summing up the findings -- Part II. Modernity and material culture: Chapter 4, Title-specific bindings and the art of mass-producing the unique: The emergence of title-specific bindings -- Chapter 5, Cloth bindings, their design and relationship to modern consumer society: Ornamentation: tradition and innovation ; A new world of pictures ; The significance of pictures ; Packaged modernity ; "Now, " novelty, and emotion -- Chapter 6, Using books: The book as furniture, the home as narrative -- Appendix A: Herzog's technical equipment: Machinery before 1889 and a selection of purchases, 1889-1895 and 1905-1918 -- Appendix B: Material for the study of publishers' catalogues in chapter 3 ; Categories and binding types that occur in the study and in the table column headings ; Genre classifications ; Other comments ; Catalogues included in the study. Tables.
Summary
"An interdisciplinary study on the emergence and function of publishers' cloth bindings in the 19th century"--
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ISBN
9781584563136 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
1584563133 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-323) and index.
Endowment Note
The Hastings Libraries Endowment
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