Author: Sidney E. Berger
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442263407
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Finally, here is the definitive glossary of the book, offering readers all the terms they will need for thorough understanding of how books are made, the materials they are made of, and how they are described in the bookselling, book collecting, and library worlds. Every key term --- over 1,300 different words --- that could be used in booksellers’ catalogs, library records, and collectors’ descriptions of their holdings is represented in this dictionary. This authoritative source covers all areas of book knowledge: the book as physical object, typeface terminology, paper, printing, book collecting, book design, bibliography, calligraphy, t he language of manuscripts, writing implements, librarianship, legal issues, the parts of a book, and much more. The definitions are supplemented by more than 100 illustrations showing the book as a physical object: parts of books, kinds of illustrations, kinds of printing techniques, tools that librarians, booksellers, and collectors refer to that are used in the making of books, kinds of binding structures and decoration, kinds of paper decoration, and other things.
The Dictionary of the Book
Author: Sidney E. Berger
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442263407
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Finally, here is the definitive glossary of the book, offering readers all the terms they will need for thorough understanding of how books are made, the materials they are made of, and how they are described in the bookselling, book collecting, and library worlds. Every key term --- over 1,300 different words --- that could be used in booksellers’ catalogs, library records, and collectors’ descriptions of their holdings is represented in this dictionary. This authoritative source covers all areas of book knowledge: the book as physical object, typeface terminology, paper, printing, book collecting, book design, bibliography, calligraphy, t he language of manuscripts, writing implements, librarianship, legal issues, the parts of a book, and much more. The definitions are supplemented by more than 100 illustrations showing the book as a physical object: parts of books, kinds of illustrations, kinds of printing techniques, tools that librarians, booksellers, and collectors refer to that are used in the making of books, kinds of binding structures and decoration, kinds of paper decoration, and other things.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442263407
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Finally, here is the definitive glossary of the book, offering readers all the terms they will need for thorough understanding of how books are made, the materials they are made of, and how they are described in the bookselling, book collecting, and library worlds. Every key term --- over 1,300 different words --- that could be used in booksellers’ catalogs, library records, and collectors’ descriptions of their holdings is represented in this dictionary. This authoritative source covers all areas of book knowledge: the book as physical object, typeface terminology, paper, printing, book collecting, book design, bibliography, calligraphy, t he language of manuscripts, writing implements, librarianship, legal issues, the parts of a book, and much more. The definitions are supplemented by more than 100 illustrations showing the book as a physical object: parts of books, kinds of illustrations, kinds of printing techniques, tools that librarians, booksellers, and collectors refer to that are used in the making of books, kinds of binding structures and decoration, kinds of paper decoration, and other things.
New Arrivals in Californiana
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Suminagashi-zome
Author: Tokutaro Yagi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780940592254
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First English translation of the unique description of Japanese marbler Tokutaro Yagi's specific techniques for suminagashi-zome or "floating ink," the art of marbling on paper or silk by floating color--usually black, red, or blue-- on water and making it spread with a lacquer surfactant to form jagged flowing lines, often resulting in patterns from nature such as wood grains, water currents, or wind patterns in a rice field.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780940592254
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First English translation of the unique description of Japanese marbler Tokutaro Yagi's specific techniques for suminagashi-zome or "floating ink," the art of marbling on paper or silk by floating color--usually black, red, or blue-- on water and making it spread with a lacquer surfactant to form jagged flowing lines, often resulting in patterns from nature such as wood grains, water currents, or wind patterns in a rice field.
The Princeton University Library Chronicle
Author: Lawrance Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Vol. 1- includes section "Biblia, devoted to the interests of the Friends of the Princeton Library," v. 11-
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Vol. 1- includes section "Biblia, devoted to the interests of the Friends of the Princeton Library," v. 11-
Marbling at the Heyeck Press
Author: Robin Heyeck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780940592209
Category : Marbled papers
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780940592209
Category : Marbled papers
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Kompendium Zeitgenössischer Handpressendrucke
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hand-printed books
Languages : de
Pages : 780
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hand-printed books
Languages : de
Pages : 780
Book Description
Adventures of a Marbler
Author: Robin Heyeck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marbled papers
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marbled papers
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Subject Guide to Children's Books in Print 1997
Author: Bowker Editorial Staff
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835238007
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 2776
Book Description
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835238007
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 2776
Book Description
Japanese Maples
Author: J. D. Vertrees
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book provides a guide to the identification of individual cultivars, information on the history and culture of the Japanese maple and over 200 color reproductions.
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book provides a guide to the identification of individual cultivars, information on the history and culture of the Japanese maple and over 200 color reproductions.
Suminagashi
Author: Anne Chambers
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500015148
Category : Marbled papers
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
An introduction to the Japanese craft of paper marbling, detailing both traditional and modern methods and including step-by-step instructions on imitating traditional designs and adapting them to Western tastes.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500015148
Category : Marbled papers
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
An introduction to the Japanese craft of paper marbling, detailing both traditional and modern methods and including step-by-step instructions on imitating traditional designs and adapting them to Western tastes.