Sandars Lectures 2023: Lecture One, ‘Picking up the Threads’ with Dr David Pearson
Hosted by Cambridge University Libraries

The Sandars Readership in Bibliography is one of the most prestigious honorary posts to which book historians, librarians and researchers can be appointed. Those elected deliver a series of lectures on their chosen subject.

Why are Cambridge bookbindings interesting? In this opening Sandars lecture 2023, Dr David Pearson describes the evolution of Cambridge binding from the late fifteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, looking at designs, materials, techniques, and ways in which these things can be recognised and dated.

Dr David Pearson was formerly Director of Culture, Heritage & Libraries for the City of London Corporation. He is a Senior Fellow of the Institute of English Studies at the University of London, was Lyell Reader in Bibliography at Oxford 2017-18, and teaches regularly on the Rare Book Schools in London and Virginia. His books include Provenance Research in Book History (new edition, 2019), English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800 (2005), Book Ownership in Stuart England (2021), and Speaking Volumes: Books with Histories (2022); in 2020 he launched the Book Owners Online database.

Cambridge Bookbindings 1450-1770, featuring 45 bookbindings in Cambridge during the handpress period using the collections of Cambridge University Library, is available on the Cambridge Digital Library: [ Ссылка ].

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