Sandars Lectures 2023: Lecture Two

Sandars Lectures 2023: Lecture Two, “We have places that have been famous for binding, as Cambridge, Eton, and London”, with Dr David Pearson
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The Sandars Readership in Bibliography is one of the most prestigious honorary posts to which book historians, librarians and researchers can be appointed. Those elected deliver a series of lectures on their chosen subject.
This second lecture from Sandars Reader 2023, Dr David Pearson, continues the chronological narrative, looking at the characteristics of Cambridge bindings through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Dr David Pearson was formerly Director of Culture, Heritage & Libraries for the City of London Corporation. He is a Senior Fellow of the Institute of English Studies at the University of London, was Lyell Reader in Bibliography at Oxford 2017-18, and teaches regularly on the Rare Book Schools in London and Virginia. His books include Provenance Research in Book History (new edition, 2019), English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800 (2005), Book Ownership in Stuart England (2021), and Speaking Volumes: Books with Histories (2022); in 2020 he launched the Book Owners Online database.
Cambridge Bookbindings 1450-1770, featuring 45 bookbindings in Cambridge during the handpress period using the collections of Cambridge University Library, is available on the Cambridge Digital Library: cudl.lib.cam.a....