Officio della Chiesa: nel quale si contengono l’Officio della Santa Vergine per tutto l’anno

Creator

Date

1697

Identifier

de Beer Fa 1697 C

Publisher

[Parigi: Claude and Nicolo Herissant]

Abstract

Whether books are large or small, the effort in binding remains the same: collating the sections, sewing the sections together, trimming the edges, rounding and backing the spine, and wrapping the text block with a cover of some sort. Here two plain, functional vellum bindings are contrasted with an ornate red morocco binding on a 1697 Italian edition of the Office of the Church. Only the stubs of the fore-edge ties remain on the Elzevier edition (1634), which has a limp vellum cover. The vellum on the ‘landscape’ Huygens (1641) is rigid, wrapped over pasteboard. Both books have vellum cords stabbed through the outer cover; this practice giving greater strength to the binding.

Files

Tiny book cover.jpg

Tags

Citation

___, “Officio della Chiesa: nel quale si contengono l’Officio della Santa Vergine per tutto l’anno,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/7432.