Author: BOSCH (Gulnar) & CARSWELL (John) & PETHERBRIDGE (Guy)
Title: Islamic Bindings & Bookmaking. A Catalogue of an Exhibition.
Description: Chicago: The Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago. 1981. First edition, 4to, 235pp., 100 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. The Oriental Institute's collection of Islamic bookbindings was acquired in 1929 from the German Orientalist and Arabic scholar Dr. Bernard Moritz. This study examines the Moritz collection in detail, and includes comparative material also once owned by Moritz and now in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, and the Islamic Museums of East and West Berlin.

Keywords: BOOKBINDING ISLAMIC ART