Detail View: Rylands Collection: Bruce Plumley binding
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Image Number:
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JRL022430tr
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Reference Number:
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Dowd 67
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Image Title:
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Bruce Plumley binding
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Series Title:
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Anthony Dowd Collection of Modern Bookbindings
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Parent Work Title:
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Four Fables
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Creator:
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Aesop
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Creator:
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Plumley, Bruce
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Creator Role:
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Binder
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Date Created:
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1979
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Page/Sheet:
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Upper & lower covers and spine
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Image Sequence Number:
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067
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Description:
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Designer binding. Bound by Bruce Plumley in 1979 in orange and white goatskin with an abstract design tooled in black & gold to represent Aesop, a slave, kneeling & praying with his hands in bonds.
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Subject:
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Bookbinding
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Category of Material:
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Printed
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Sub-Category:
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Bindings
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Technique Used:
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Gold tooling
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Medium:
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Gold leaf
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Support:
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Goatskin
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Item Height:
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415 mm
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Item Width:
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310 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K. (on temporary deposit)
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Provenance:
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Dowd, Anthony, owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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Copyright and IPR restrictions apply
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References:
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'The Anthony Dowd Collection of Modern Bindings', compiled by Anthony Dowd (John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 2002)
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Bibliographic Citation:
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Aesop, 'Four Fables', translated by the Rev. Samuel Croxall (London: World's End Press, 1972)
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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