- Title :
-
Describing (and selling) bindings in sixteenth-century Florence
- Author :
- GEHL, Paul F. ;
- Publication year :
-
1998
- Language :
- English ;
- Abstract :
- In 16th c. Italy, industrial binding and bookselling on a large scale created a craft tradition with a jargon of its own, a usage so complex that demonstrating its mastery in a formal examination was a requirement of guild membership in many towns. Gehl explicates this jargon as a by-product of the maturing book industry in the mid to late 16th c. His source - the extensive list of bindings put down by one Florentine bookseller - shows how the expert vocabulary for bindings became part of a larger, consumer book culture. ;
- Topic :
- 530 - BIBLIOGRAPHIE D'HISTOIRE DE L'ART ;
- French keywords :
- Commerce ; Firenze (ITA) ; Italie ; Reliure ; Terminologie ; 1500-1600 ;
- Descriptors :
- Bookbinding ; Commerce ; Firenze (ITA) ; Italy ; Terminology ; 1500-1600 ;
- Document type :
- Article ;
- Source :
-
Italian studies, 1998, 53
- INIST identifier :
- 24994714 ;
- ISSN :
- ISSN 0075-1634 ;
- Provenance :
- Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'Art ;
- Publisher :
-
Society for Italian Studies, Birmingham
- Publisher country :
- UNITED KINGDOM ;
