Bookbindings: An Illustrated History curated for the home Lucinda Byatt

Lucinda Byatt

ISBN 978-0-89236-763-4

After serving in World War II and studying art history at Columbia University

he is less well known than contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning

Janet Burnett Grossman is associate curator of antiquities at the Getty Museum

Bookbindings: An Illustrated History curated for the home Lucinda ByattAn extravagantly illustrated history of the development of bookbindings, from antiquity to modern day. Bindings have been an essentialand often beautifulcomponent of books since the codex form was invented 2,000 years ago. They make books work, but they also provide an opportunity for binders to display their skills. Until book trade processes were industrialized in the nineteenth century, every binding was a unique handcrafted object, no matter how