Detail View: Rylands Collection: Arthur Johnson: Life and Works of Sir Christopher Wren

Image Number: 
JRL022380tr
Reference Number: 
Dowd 50
Image Title: 
Arthur Johnson: Life and Works of Sir Christopher Wren
Series Title: 
Anthony Dowd Collection of Modern Bookbindings
Creator: 
Johnson, Arthur
Creator Role: 
Binder
Date Created: 
1967
Page/Sheet: 
Upper cover & spine
Description: 
Designer binding. Bound by Arthur Johnson in 1967 in cream vellum with a design of St Paul's Cathedral tooled in gold on the upper board, and the title tooled in gold on the spine.
Subject: 
Bookbinding
Category of Material: 
Printed
Sub-Category: 
Bindings
Technique Used: 
Gold tooling
Medium: 
Gold leaf
Support: 
Vellum
Item Height: 
308 mm
Item Width: 
229 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: 
'Life and Works of Sir Christopher Wren; from the Parentalia or Memoirs by his son Christopher', edited by Ernest J. Enthoven (Campden: Essex House Press, 1903)
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB