Publishers' Bindings Online and The Artistic, Cultural, and Historical Significance of American Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1. THE ART OF BOOKS FROM THE REAL TO THE VIRTUAL: Jessica Lacher-Feldman Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections & Associate Professor The University of Alabama The Artistic, Cultural, and Historical Significance of American Decorated Publishers' Bindings
58. Value-Added Components: Aesthetics and Artistic Styles, Visual Literacy and Artistic Techniques
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61. Through galleries , book titles are linked to full text when available/ appropriate via Project Gutenberg , Bartleby –allowing researcher to extend move from binding to electronic version of actual text .
68. A growing resource that explores binding designers and links directly to our database. Comments and assistance welcome!
69. There are 2123 publishers included in PBO to date – this map takes users to a complete list of publishers by region! Publishers’ Map --huge potential for growth in scholarship – making sense of a lot of data!