Detail View: RIT CARY GRAPHIC ARTS COLLECTION: Recollections : my life in bookbinding

Filename: 
cc20200928_GINN
Identifier: 
cc_ginn_m628r 1995c
Title: 
Recollections : my life in bookbinding
Creator: 
Middleton, Bernard C., 1924-
Subject: 
Bookbinders - England - Biography
Subject: 
Bookbinding - Specimens
Subject: 
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
Subject: 
Leather doublures (Binding)
Subject: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Summary: 
Originally bound by Bernard C. Middleton; re-bound in 2000 by Flora Ginn. This item's original binding was removed and rebound to commemorate the Bookbinding 2000 Conference in June 2000 which celebrated the opening of the Bernard C. Middleton Collection within the Cary Graphic Arts Collection.
Summary: 
Full binding in brown goatskin. Black and gilt-stamped ornamented concentric circle patterns with gilt-stamped lettering at center; black-stamped single line ruled border with gilt-stamped stars, outlining, and lettering. Mirror image on back cover with lettering done using specially cut reversed tools. Four lines of horizontal, black-stamped stars across spine with black and gilt-stamped 'v' shaped patterning along center of spine. Brown goatskin doublures contain patterned circles at center composed of gilt-stamped v-shaped characters. Gilt edges. Rear paste-down doublure contains gilt-stamped initials '20FG00' for Flora Ginn. Housed in quarter-bound black clamshell case with gilt tooling along cloth edge and gilt-stamped lettering accross head of spine.
Publisher: 
Bird & Bull Press
Digital Publisher: 
Rochester Institute of Technology - RIT Libraries - Cary Graphic Arts Collection
Contributor: 
Ginn, Flora
Date of Original: 
2000
Date of Digitization: 
2020
Broad Type: 
still image
Specific Type: 
books
Digital File Format: 
jpeg
Physical Format: 
books
Dimensions of Original: 
26 cm.
Original Item Location: 
Specimen Ginn M628r 1995 c
Library Collection: 
Bernard C. Middleton Collection of Books on the History and Practice of Bookbinding
Library Collection: 
Bookbinding 2000 Specimens
Digital Project: 
2020_0010_middleton
Catalog Record: 
https://albert.rit.edu/record=1377388
Place: 
New York - Rochester
RIT Spaces and Places: 
Cary Graphic Design Archives
Rights: 
RIT Libraries makes materials from its collections available for educational and research purposes pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. It is your responsibility to obtain permission from the copyright holder to publish or reproduce images in print or electronic form.
Notes: 
From the Bernard C. Middleton Collection of Books on the History and Practice of Bookbinding. Presently numbering some 2,000 volumes (and numerous ephemeral items), the collection is housed in its own reading room within the Cary Graphic Arts Collection, R.I.T. The acquisition of the Middleton Collection was made possible through a generous grant from the Frank M. Barnard Foundation and its chief trustee, the late Dudley A. Weiss, in whose honor the reading room is named. The acquisition of this work supports the ongoing development of the collection.