Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-323) and index.
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' caralogues. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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