List of Abbreviations

The following bibliographical abbreviations are used:

BAB

British Armorial Bindings Database

CSEL

Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum

ISTC

Incunabula Short Title Catalogue

Gibson

S. Gibson, Early Oxford Bindings (Oxford, 1903)

Ker, Pastedowns

N. R. Ker, Pastedowns in Oxford Bindings, reprinted with corrigenda and addenda by D. Rundle and S. Mandelbrote (Oxford, 2004)

MLGB3

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, 3rd edition, on-line

Oldham, Blind-Stamped

J. B. Oldham, English Blind-Stamped Bindings (Cambridge, 1952)

Oldham, Panels

J. B. Oldham, Blind Panels of English Binders (Cambridge, 1958)

Pearson, 'Cambridge'

D. Pearson, 'Bookbinding in Cambridge in the second half of the sixteenth century' in id. ed., 'For the Love of the Binding'. Studies in bookbinding history presented to Mirjam Foot (London, 2000), pp. 169-96

Pearson, Oxford

D. Pearson, Oxford Book-binding, 1500-1640 (Oxford, 2000)

TCBS

Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society

USTC

Universal Short-Title Catalogue

Venn, AC

J. and J. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, part i, 4 vols (Cambridge, 1922-27)