Legacy Bookbindery Collection
Creator
Downey, James T.
Title
Legacy Bookbindery Collection
Extent
2.8 linear feet and 23 binding models, as well as artists’ books and fine press books (cataloged separately).
Description
This collection contains bookbinding models created by James Downey, a bookbinder and conservator who used to run the Legacy Bookbindery in Columbia, Missouri.
Table Of Contents
Series Descriptions:
Series One – Labels contains labels mounted on cardboard, prepared by James Downey describing individual items.
Series Two – Paper Marbling contains a portfolio of paper marbling patterns produced by Downey in 1992.
Series Three – Long Stitches and Chain-stitches contains examples of long stitch bindings as well as a chain-stitch binding. Both are forms of all-along sewing without sewing supports.
Series Four – Asian Binding Styles contains examples of binding styles commonly practiced in China and Japan: accordion folds, four-hole binding, and butterfly binding.
Series Five – European Binding Styles contains codices as they were bound in Europe during the Middle Ages and early modern period.
Series Six – Bookbinding Materials contains sample wooden book boards as well as papermaking materials.
Series Seven – Tackets and Pamphlets contains examples of tacket binding, possibly the earliest form of bookbinding, as well as pamphlet stitches.
Series Eight – Coptic Binding contains examples of Coptic binding, a form of northern African binding that may represent the first form of the codex as it is generally made in the West.
Series Nine – Casing In contains examples of casing-in, the method of making books that succeeded bookbinding in the West. It contains finished books as well as partially prepared bindings.
Inventory
Series One – Labels: LabelsSeries Two – Paper Marbling
- Box 1: Legacy Sampler ’92
- Box 1: Long stitch, Vellum account book, Chain-stitch binding with pheasant feathers.
- Box 1: Accordion folds. Two variants on accordion folds. Japanese 4-hole binding. Chinese butterfly binding.
- Box 2: Diapered goat with chain, Unfinished medieval codex, Quarterbound leather (Renaissance binding)
- Box 2: Quarter-sawn oak boards, Boards prepared for binding, Papermaking materials.
- Box 2: Tacket binding, Tacketed binding with tabs, Five pamphlet bindings.
- Box 3: Coptic binding with wooden boards, Coptic binding with pastepaper boards.
- Box 3: Sewing on tapes for a case binding, Sewing on tapes 3-piece set of case constructions, Rounded spine case binding.
Has Format
MU Digital Library: Legacy Bookbindery Collection.
Identifier
MU Catalog: Legacy Bookbindery Collection.
OCLC/WorldCat Number: on1410951774, 1410951774
Call numbers: Shelfmark I02 (Box 1), Shelfmark I02 (Box 2), Shelfmark I02 (Box 3)
Provenance
Downey donated his collection of binding models, artists’ books, and fine press books to Special Collections in the spring of 2023.
Rights
The University of Missouri Libraries do not hold copyright on most collection materials, and therefore we do not charge usage fees or require permission to publish scanned images. The libraries encourage use of reproductions of Special Collections materials in publications, broadcasts, public displays and on web pages. However, please be aware that the user is responsible for determining copyright status and applying for permission to copyright holders.
Access Rights
Materials do not circulate but are available to users in the Special Collections Reading Room during service hours or by appointment.
Format
Publication Type: Object
Document Type: Realia
Document Type: Realia
Language
No linguistic content.
