In 2010, archivist and book conservator Julia Miller published Books Will Speak Plain. The 500-page handbook is “aimed at conservators, collectors, librarians, and book lovers, for the identification and description of book structures and styles.” Miller used the notes from her 30 year career to chronicle the huge variety of book designs she had encountered… Read more »
book binding exhibit
Book Binding Exhibit at The Walters Art Museum
The Walters Art Museum is featuring a great exhibit of ornate book bindings from the late 19th and early 20th century. This time period was a heyday for book binding, as binders made increasingly lavish and complex book bindings that were works of art in their own right. There were even separate movements within the… Read more »
