Eloquent Witnesses Bookbindings and Their History

Giles Barber was on the staff of the Bodleian Library from 1954 to 1970 and Librarian of the Taylor Institution, Oxford, until retirement in 1996 Carmen Blacker is the great-granddaughter of the binding collector John Blacker. She was Lecturer in Japanese at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Cambridge from 1958 to 1991 Christian Coppens is Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the Katholieke Universiteit, Louvain Mirjam Foot is Professor of Library and Archive Studies at University College, London David Pearson is Director of the University of London Research Library Services Nicholas Pickwoad is a freelance book conservator who is in charge of the St Catherine's monastery library project at the Camberwell School of Arts and is adviser on book conservation to the National Trust of Great Britain Nicholas Poole-Wilson has been managing director of Bernard Quaritch Ltd for the past twenty-five years Esther Potter is an independent scholar with a special interest in the structure and development of the nineteenth century bookbinding trade Jan Storm van Leeuwen is Curator of Bookbindings at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague Marianne Tidcombe is the author of The Bookbindings of T. J. Cobden-Sanderson (1984), The Doves Bindery (1991), Women Bookbinders 1880-1920 (1996), and The Doves Press (2002).Foot, Mirjam M. is the author of 'Eloquent Witnesses Bookbindings and Their History', published 2004 under ISBN 9780712348270 and ISBN 0712348271.