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Sotheran's
Sotheran's is a bookshop in Sackville Street, London, founded in 1761 in York and created in London in 1815. In 1884, John Harrison Stonehouse became employed as an apprentice, ultimately rising to the position of managing director through his skills of literacy, invention, and marketing. See also *Fore-edge painting A fore-edge painting is a scene painted on the edges of book pages. There are two basic forms, including paintings on fanned edges and closed edges. For the first type, the book's leaves must be fanned, exposing the pages' edges for the picture ... References {{coord, 51.5091, -0.1378, display=title Bookshops in London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Harrison Stonehouse
John Harrison Stonehouse (1864 – 27 August 1937) was an English bookseller and Charles Dickens scholar at long-established London booksellers Sotheran's where he rose from apprentice to managing director through hard work and a strong entrepreneurial instinct. He introduced and popularised the "Cosway" binding and commissioned the opulent edition of Edward FitzGerald's ''The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'' that was lost when RMS ''Titanic'' sank in 1912. He published a book on the subject in 1933. He became a specialist in manuscripts and acquired a previously unknown collection of Dickens material relating to a youthful romance between the author and Maria Beadnell, his notes on which were turned into a book published in the United States. He later published a book about Dickens's early life. He also acquired 37 volumes of material relating to the prophetess Joanna Southcott, and a collection of "intimate" letters between the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Georgiana Cav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sackville Street, London
Sackville Street is a street in central London which today is mainly composed of offices and the rears of retail premises, but once was the home to several important medical figures. Location The street runs between Vigo Street in the north and Piccadilly in the south. It has no other exits. History The land on which Sackville Street stands, like Albany and Burlington House, was formerly known as Stone Conduit Close. It was bounded on one side by Penniless Bank and on the other by Swallow Close. It passed into Crown ownership in 1536 and formerly belonged to the Abbot and Convent of Abingdon. The land was then much divided, leases granted and ended and ownership changed several times."Sackville Street" ''Survey of London'', Volumes 31 and 32: St James Westminster, Part 2 (1963), pp. 342-366. Retrieved 6 June 2014. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fore-edge Painting
A fore-edge painting is a scene painted on the edges of book pages. There are two basic forms, including paintings on fanned edges and closed edges. For the first type, the book's leaves must be fanned, exposing the pages' edges for the picture to become visible. For the second closed type, the image is visible only while the book is closed. The fundamental difference between the two fore-edge styles is that a painting on the closed edge is painted directly on the book's surface (the fore-edge being the opposite of the spine side). In contrast, the fanned fore-edge style has watercolor applied to the top or bottom margin (recto or verso) of the page/leaf and not to the actual "fore"-edge itself. To begin a fore-edge painting artists clamped the slightly fanned pages of a book between the boards of a special press that held them in place while keeping pressure off of the cover boards. While the paints used for fore-edge paintings are watercolors, artists needed to use them carefu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
