tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10625475.post-1107717480040179282005-02-06T11:18:00.000-08:002008-04-17T08:07:17.143-07:00How does one categorise this level of craftsmanship?<br />Is it Book Art?.... Designer Binding?...... What?<br />The Victorians took Arts and Crafts to an Art Nouvou<br />level beyond anything ever seen before...or so though they thought.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">click on pictures to </span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/879/830/1600/Geneva%20Bible%201.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/879/830/320/Geneva%20Bible%201.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">enlarge</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >2 Royal Bindings by Paul Tronson</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span>But these styles are a several centuries earlier and were nothing new then!<br />One only has to visit the Palace of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alhambra</span> in Granada to see that the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Moors</span> were influencing the world with their art a millenia ago, it was only with the invention of the printed word that a few men became eminent in the true <span style="font-weight: bold;">Art of Bookbinding</span> and by using a most difficult medium of gold leaf, applied their genius to the craft to inspire us all.... just as they were inspired themselves.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_V10ih2CkDDw/SAdnFaYhZlI/AAAAAAAAAEc/HsgnahMKt9c/s1600-h/book6c.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_V10ih2CkDDw/SAdnFaYhZlI/AAAAAAAAAEc/HsgnahMKt9c/s200/book6c.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190230438246966866" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_V10ih2CkDDw/SAdniaYhZmI/AAAAAAAAAEk/zeQTHJivZqo/s1600-h/3halfa.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_V10ih2CkDDw/SAdniaYhZmI/AAAAAAAAAEk/zeQTHJivZqo/s200/3halfa.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190230936463173218" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10625475-110771748004017928?l=bookbinding.blogspot.com'/></div>Paulnoreply@blogger.com