Binders from Saragossa in 19th century

Abstract

The 19th century binders who made some artistic bookbindings which are kept in the Library of the University of Saragossa are presented. For that, firstly, an exhaustive inventory of the artistic bookbindings stored at its Historic Library warehouse was done. Then, those bookbindings with signatures or labels were identified. After that, bookbindings were catalogued following the Catálogo Colectivo de Encuadernaciones Artísticascataloguing standard. The results consist of a brief biographical description of the binders, an enumeration of the institutions or people they worked with, and a brief description of the works they performed for the University of Saragossa. It can be concluded that binders from Saragossa practised most of the binding styles that then were fashionable in Spain. Moreover, binders used to be also printers or booksellers; thus, binding was a secondary occupation.