Comments for Readings in Bookbinding http://www.dougrice.org/readings Responses by Doug Rice Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:18:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 Comment on The Birth of the Codex by chela http://www.dougrice.org/readings/?p=12#comment-9 chela Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:01:58 +0000 http://www.dougrice.org/readings/?p=12#comment-9 Doug, This is swell...And it IS particularly interesting to find Martial as a Pagan, deciding on a codex form. Did you peak back at the chapters on clay tablets and scroll libraries in the Rose edited Companion to the History of the Book? I have some papyrus in the lab you can handle if you want to get a feel for its lovely color and its appealing springy nature when rolled. I have an article on how some areas of Europe held onto scrolls of parchment for keeping accounts long into the codex "era". You might want to peek at Gary Frost's discussion of the physical formats that were built on some of the qualities inherent in papyrus. Check out his Future of the Book.com and see search for papyus.... Time to schedule another Dog n Duck chat? cheers, chela Doug,

This is swell…And it IS particularly interesting to find Martial as a Pagan, deciding on a codex form. Did you peak back at the chapters on clay tablets and scroll libraries in the Rose edited Companion to the History of the Book? I have some papyrus in the lab you can handle if you want to get a feel for its lovely color and its appealing springy nature when rolled. I have an article on how some areas of Europe held onto scrolls of parchment for keeping accounts long into the codex “era”. You might want to peek at Gary Frost’s discussion of the physical formats that were built on some of the qualities inherent in papyrus. Check out his Future of the Book.com and see search for papyus…. Time to schedule another Dog n Duck chat? cheers,

chela

]]> Comment on Preliminary Reading List by chela http://www.dougrice.org/readings/?p=1#comment-8 chela Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:42:12 +0000 http://www.dougrice.org/readings/?p=1#comment-8 cool timeline of bookbinding done up by a grad student at Cal: http://www.historyofscience.com/G2I/timeline/index.php?category=Bookbinding> cool timeline of bookbinding done up by a grad student at Cal: http://www.historyofscience.com/G2I/timeline/index.php?category=Bookbinding>

]]> Comment on Preliminary Reading List by chela http://www.dougrice.org/readings/?p=1#comment-6 chela Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:04:12 +0000 http://www.dougrice.org/readings/?p=1#comment-6 Hey Doug...the Sennet book was interesting to me, but I have been told its not his most well written. You might peek at his earlier writings to put this book in context. Your list looks good to me as a start, I would just say look at David Pye's "Nature and Art of Workmanship", its short and good. You might look at how the word codicology is used in relationship to bookbinding.It is a internationally accepted word used most often for the study of medieval books I think. Collected essays in honor of scholars often have gems. In that regard "For the Love of the Binding" in honor of Foot, and "Roger Powell the compleat Binder" in honor of Roger Powell, and "Studies in the book trade in honor of Graham Pollard" are both full of interest, especially the intro's where the philosophy behind the work is discussed. And finally Pearson just wrote "Books as History", which as a part on binding, but is mostly interesting in his approach. Do you read any other languages? I look forward to discussing Sennett with you! Hey Doug…the Sennet book was interesting to me, but I have been told its not his most well written. You might peek at his earlier writings to put this book in context. Your list looks good to me as a start, I would just say look at David Pye’s “Nature and Art of Workmanship”, its short and good. You might look at how the word codicology is used in relationship to bookbinding.It is a internationally accepted word used most often for the study of medieval books I think. Collected essays in honor of scholars often have gems. In that regard “For the Love of the Binding” in honor of Foot, and “Roger Powell the compleat Binder” in honor of Roger Powell, and “Studies in the book trade in honor of Graham Pollard” are both full of interest, especially the intro’s where the philosophy behind the work is discussed. And finally Pearson just wrote “Books as History”, which as a part on binding, but is mostly interesting in his approach. Do you read any other languages? I look forward to discussing Sennett with you!

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