Însemnări pe cărți vechi aflate la muzeul eparhial Huși despre legătoria de carte/legători

Abstract

Bookbinding was in the past separate from printing, with the printers simply separating the book print into ‟bodies” of books tied with string and separated by pieces of cardboard. The books were therefore sold ‟unbound”, the sale of prints in this form, a long practice by the way, can be attributed to the high price of paper and printing. In addition, an equally important factor was the relatively high price of the binding and the specifics of the craft, which required artistic skill associated with a rather large execution time and raw material procurement. Therefore, the books were sold unbound, and the burden of binding them still fell on the buyers or owners. Along with the old bindings, the notes kept on the pages of the books help to reconstruct the past of Romanian bookbinding, by revealing the names of the bookbinders, technical data, and the price of the bindings.