COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL022381tr
Reference Number:
Dowd 72
Image Title:
Romilly Saumarez Smith: The Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1956-1990
Series Title:
Anthony Dowd Collection of Modern Bookbindings
Creator:
Smith, Romilly Saumarez
Creator Role:
Binder
Date Created:
1995
Page/Sheet:
Upper & lower covers and spine
Description:
Designer binding. Bound by Romilly Saumarez Smith in 1995, the boards covered with figured vellum titled on the foredges by Alison Urwick; resist-dyed calf spine with six goatskin & vellum overstraps, attached with patinated copper wire rosettes.
Subject:
Bookbinding
Category of Material:
Printed
Sub-Category:
Bindings
Support:
Vellum
Item Height:
325 mm
Item Width:
240 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K. (on temporary deposit)
Provenance:
Dowd, Anthony, owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
Copyright and IPR restrictions apply
References:
'The Anthony Dowd Collection of Modern Bindings', compiled by Anthony Dowd (John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 2002)
Bibliographic Citation:
Butcher, David, 'The Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1956-1990' (Risbury, Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 1992)
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Romilly Saumarez Smith: The Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1956-1990
