TABLE OF CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. EARLY RECORDS. | |
| Rock inscriptions—Marks on wood—Quipus—Wampum—Modernideographs—Indian palm-leaf books—Ideographs and alphabets—Diptychs | p. [1] |
| CHAPTER II. ROLLS, BOOKS AND BOOKBINDINGS. | |
| Papyrus and vellum rolls—Quaternions—The sewing of books—Headbands—Therounding and backing of books—Mediæval books—Irishcumdachs—Byzantine bindings—Oriental books—Modernmethods of sewing and binding | p. [26] |
| CHAPTER III. PAPER. | |
| Paper—Watermarks and quiring | p. [62] |
| CHAPTER IV. PRINTING. | |
| Assyrian bricks with printed inscriptions—Oiron ware—Chinese types—Blockbooks—Costeriana—Types and stereotypes—Printingpresses | p. [85] |
| CHAPTER V. ILLUSTRATIONS. | |
| Wood engraving—Line engraving—Etching—Stipple—Mezzotint—Aquatint—Lithography—Photography | p. [102] |
| CHAPTER VI. MISCELLANEA. | |
| Book edges and their decoration—Embroidered books—Cloth bindings—Accountbooks—End papers—Small metal-bound books—Booksbound in tortoiseshell—Chained books—Horn books | p. [141] |
| CHAPTER VII. LEATHERS. | |
| Vellum—Calf—Pig skin—Sheep skin—Goat skin—Seal skin, etc. | p. [169] |
| CHAPTER VIII. THE ORNAMENTATION OF LEATHER BOOKBINDINGS WITHOUT GOLD. | |
| Blind tooling and stamping—Panel stamps—Cut leather—Stained calf—Cutvellum—Transparent vellum | p. [181] |
| CHAPTER IX. THE ORNAMENTATION OF LEATHER BOOKBINDINGS WITH GOLD. | |
| Gold tooling in leather introduced from the East to Venice—EarlyItalian gold tooled work—The spread of gold tooling in Europe—Modernwork—Gold tooling in leather—Early Venetian goldtooled bindings—The work of Thos. Berthelet, John Day, JohnGibson, Mary Collet, Samuel Mearne, Suckerman, Eliot andChapman, Roger Payne, Richard Wier, Charles Hering, Kalthœber,Staggemeier, Walther, Charles Lewis, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson,Sir Edw. Sullivan, Douglas Cockerell, E. M. MacColl, S. Prideaux,Adams, Woolrich, Etienne Roffet, Geoffrey Tory, Nicholas andClovis Eve, Le Gascon, Florimond Badier, Macé Ruette, L. A.Boyet, Padeloup le Jeune, J. le Monnier, Derome le Jeune, Capé,Duru, Thouvenin, Bauzonnet, Trautz, Lortic | p. [205] |
| INDEX | p. [245] |
LIST OF PLATES.
| 1. GOLDEN BINDING OF “THE GOSPELS OF CHARLEMAGNE,” WITH JEWELS AND ENAMELS, 11TH OR 12TH CENTURY. (See [p. 54]) | [Frontispiece] |
| 2. PAGE FROM WILLIAM CASLON’S “SPECIMEN OF PRINTING TYPES.” (LONDON, 1766) | [To face p. 98] |
| 3. PAGE FROM THE “HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI.” (VENICE, 1499) | [To face p. 104] |
| 4. PAGE FROM CAXTON’S “MYRROUR OF THE WORLDE.” (LONDON, 1481) | [To face p. 108] |
| 5. “THE PEACOCK.” WOOD ENGRAVING BY THOS. BEWICK, FROM THE “HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS.” (NEWCASTLE, 1797-1804) | [To face p. 110] |
| 6. TITLE-PAGE OF GRIMM’S “GERMAN POPULAR STORIES.” (LONDON, 1824) | [To face p. 124] |
| 7. FRENCH SEVENTEENTH CENTURY BINDING BY LE GASCON. RED MOROCCO, INLAID WITH OLIVE AND CITRON MOROCCO AND GOLD TOOLED IN THE POINTILLÉ MANNER | [To face p. 238] |
THE BOOK:
ITS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT.