Mirjam Foot
Author of Pictorial Bookbindings
About the Author
Mirjam M. Foot is Professor of Library and Archive Studies at University College London.
Image credit: Rare Book School
Works by Mirjam Foot
William Caxton : an exhibition to commemorate the quincentenary of the introduction of printing into England [held in the] British Library Reference Division, 24 September 1976-31… (1976) — Compiler — 27 copies, 1 review
For the Love of the Binding: Studies in Bookbinding History Presented to Mirjam Foot (2000) 25 copies
The Henry Davis Gift: A Collection of Bookbindings : A Catalogue of North-European Bindings (1983) 4 copies
Associated Works
Bookbindings & Other Bibliophily: Essays in Honour of Anthony Hobson (1994) — Contributor — 11 copies
Incunabula in the Westminster Abbey and Westminster School Libraries (2013) — Contributor — 6 copies
Memories of Sue Allen — Contributor — 2 copies
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- University College London
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- Foot, M. R. D. (husband)
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This book contains Howard M. Nixon's Lyell Lectures, as amended and prepared for publication by Mirjam M. Foot. The lectures cover the history of decorated bookbindings in England, with a rather marked emphasis on earlier periods rather than later. Written with much detail and also with a delightfully dry wit which results in more than a few thoroughly amusing lines. While it would have been excellent to see all the images in color, such a large selection of them, even in black and white, is show more most welcome. show less
A well-argued case showing "how bookbindings, in all their variety, reflect the societies in - and the social classes for - which they are made, so that the study of bookbinding history is no mean tributary, but part of the mainstream of social history" (p. 1). Some excellent examples, both illustrated and discussed in the text of Foot's Panizzi lectures.
William Caxton: An Exhibition to Commemorate the Quincentenary of the Introduction of Printing into England. British Library Reference Division, 24 September 1976 - 31 January 1977 by Janet Backhouse
The catalog from a 1976 British Library exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of printing in England. Full of useful information and background about Caxton and his career.
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