Wikipedia:GLAM/British Library/Bookbinding

Started January 2012. This is a sub-page of GLAM/BL, the page for collaboration between Wikipedia and the British Library. Bookbinding is an area we do not cover very well. I've done some work on categories, both here and on Commons, and adding pictures. See Category:Bookbinding, which has had a good deal added. Johnbod (talk) 18:02, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Philippa Marks, the BL bindings curator, has kindly donated her book (Marks, P.J.M.) Beautiful Bookbindings, A Thousand Years of the Bookbinder's Art, 2011, British Library, ISBN 9780712358231 to WMUK; it's with me (Johnbod), so please let me know if you would like to use it. We had a good talk on ways we might go forward. More later.

Bindings and decorated papers - This BL page is the best starting place for their considerable resources on bindings.

People interested

 * Johnbod (talk) 15:13, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Philafrenzy (talk) 09:56, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Wanted articles

 * Islamic book cover
 * List of bookbinders, with brief notes
 * Improve Bookbinding, with probably a spin-off for Leather bookbinding in the West or something
 * Something like Bookbindings in the British Library - we thought maybe start with a single article, though some are in specific collections.

Wanted pictures

 * Classic leather book cover styles - we have loads of b/w ones from old books, but few in colour
 * More Islamic covers
 * Plain white vellum cover, with handwritten title

New articles

 * Robert Riviere (1808–1882), London bookbinder.
 * Bookbindings in the British Library stub created.

Improved articles

 * St Cuthbert Gospel - already being worked on; BL has an ongoing appeal to buy the oldest Western binding.
 * added to bookbinding

Biographies


 * Jean Grolier de Servières
 * Elkanah Settle
 * Nicholas Ferrar