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John Bagford, "Of Booke Binding Ancient" and 'Of Booke Binding Modourne" -- illustrated with inserted bits of leather bindings, specimens of title pages, alphabets, printers' and publishers' devices, maps, specimens of paper, many fragments are the only remaining of books destroyed; other scrapbooks concerning manuscripts by Bagford

Kitto's Bible, extra-illustrated with 30,000 prints, now at the Huntington: http://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1606678~S0

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps

John Evans, mid-17c, made a commonplace book of dramatic extracts, intended for publication as Hesperides; 2 extant mss, both at Folger; Halliwell-Phillipps cut up one, so its fragments can be found scattered among his scrapbooks

Add MS 65170 at British Library; "CHARLES BURNEY COLLECTION. Vol. IX. Sophocles: Testimonia and fragments, extracted from Brunck's edition; 1788, 1789. Printed extracts pasted into a book and lightly annotated. ff. i+277. 242 x 195mm.Richard Franz Philipp Brunck: Sophocles: Testimoni." Creation Date: 1788-1789. See http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/TourBurnMembra.asp

both Halliwell-Phillips and Charles Burney were book thiefs

early modern printed fragments used to make limp binding at Add MS 57337*, BL

Alexander Shaw, 18th-century catalogue of tapas cloth containing letterpress-printed pages, followed by cloth samples: https://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2015/11/26/alexander-shaws-curious-cloth-catalogue/

Otto Frederick Ege, collection at the Beinecke -- broke apart early modern and medieval books and manuscripts to sell the leaves: http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/press/2015/11/yales-beinecke-library-acquires-trove-of-medieval-manuscripts-that-belonged-to-noted-book-breaker.phtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InThePress-FBC+%28In+The+Press+-+Fine+Books+%26+Collections%29; see his essay "I am a biblioclast," Avocations (March 1938)

Philip Hanrott, allowed his three children to cut out decorative elements in medieval manuscripts and paste them into scrapbooks; see Rickert, Reconstructed Carmelite Missal

John Ruskin

Burckhardt-Wildt album

J. G. Ballard, cut-up novels: http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/text-collages-by-j-g-ballard-c-1958

"The Connoisseur": a humorous print ca 1830 showing a woman made of prints and ephemera: http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk/search/displayItemImage.do?FormatType=fulltextimgsrc&PageNumber=1&ItemNumber=47&ItemID=19970117134404md&shelfNumber=1&ResultsID=15C5ED2AF2653AF3E -- in the John Johnson collection at the Bodleian

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Sudelbücher or "scrapbooks" collecting quotes, aphorisms, short musings

Lost Manuscripts project, David Rundle at Kent: https://www.lostmss.org.uk/project/pilot-project

Fragments from burned medieval manuscripts at Chartres: https://www.manuscrits-de-chartres.fr/en/reconnaitre-un-manuscrit-chartrain

John Freund collection of visual albums: https://www.instagram.com/visualalbums/

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+* John Evans, mid-17c, made a commonplace book of dramatic extracts, intended for publication as Hesperides; 2 extant mss, both at Folger; Halliwell-Phillipps cut up one, so its fragments can be found scattered among his scrapbooks
 Add MS 65170 at British Library; "CHARLES BURNEY COLLECTION. Vol. IX. Sophocles: Testimonia and fragments, extracted from Brunck's edition; 1788, 1789. Printed extracts pasted into a book and lightly annotated. ff. i+277. 242 x 195mm.Richard Franz Philipp Brunck: Sophocles: Testimoni." Creation Date: 1788-1789. See http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/TourBurnMembra.asp
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 Alexander Shaw, 18th-century catalogue of tapas cloth containing letterpress-printed pages, followed by cloth samples: https://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2015/11/26/alexander-shaws-curious-cloth-catalogue/
-Otto Frederick Ege, collection at the Reinecke -- broke apart early modern and medieval books and manuscripts to sell the leaves: http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/press/2015/11/yales-beinecke-library-acquires-trove-of-medieval-manuscripts-that-belonged-to-noted-book-breaker.phtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InThePress-FBC+%28In+The+Press+-+Fine+Books+%26+Collections%29; see his essay "I am a biblioclast," Avocations (March 1938)
+Otto Frederick Ege, collection at the Beinecke -- broke apart early modern and medieval books and manuscripts to sell the leaves: http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/press/2015/11/yales-beinecke-library-acquires-trove-of-medieval-manuscripts-that-belonged-to-noted-book-breaker.phtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InThePress-FBC+%28In+The+Press+-+Fine+Books+%26+Collections%29; see his essay "I am a biblioclast," Avocations (March 1938)
-== John Bagford ==
+Philip Hanrott, allowed his three children to cut out decorative elements in medieval manuscripts and paste them into scrapbooks; see Rickert, Reconstructed Carmelite Missal
-=== Bagford's Notes on Bookbinding, by Cyril Davenport ==
+John Ruskin
-"Of booke binding ancient" (Harl. 5910 f 131 a) -- vellum rolls and waxen diptychs; boards, pasteboards, boards made of old ropes, and sewing and headbandings; chained books are condemned
+Burckhardt-Wildt album
-"Of Booke binding modourne" - explains processes of collating, folding, beating the leaves, ruling the books with red; at beginning of Harl 5943 are 20 pgs of thick blue paper, pasted with various speciens of bindings and MS notes; Bagford's handwritten notes on pg 8-9; "some [bindings] may have been added since, but none have been taken away" (126)
+J. G. Ballard, cut-up novels: http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/text-collages-by-j-g-ballard-c-1958
-=== John Bagford and His Collections, by W. Y. Fletcher ===
+"The Connoisseur": a humorous print ca 1830 showing a woman made of prints and ephemera: http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk/search/displayItemImage.do?FormatType=fulltextimgsrc&PageNumber=1&ItemNumber=47&ItemID=19970117134404md&shelfNumber=1&ResultsID=15C5ED2AF2653AF3E -- in the John Johnson collection at the Bodleian
-Bagford -- brought up as a shoemaker; believed to have written "Art of Shoemaking and Historicall Account of Clouthing of ye foot," Harley manuscripts
+Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Sudelbücher or "scrapbooks" collecting quotes, aphorisms, short musings
-employed by Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, Sir Hans Sloane, and John Moore, Bishop of Ely
+Lost Manuscripts project, David Rundle at Kent: https://www.lostmss.org.uk/project/pilot-project
-participated in 1707 in founding of Society of Antiquaries
+Fragments from burned medieval manuscripts at Chartres: https://www.manuscrits-de-chartres.fr/en/reconnaitre-un-manuscrit-chartrain
-amassed two great collections: ballads (Bagford Ballads), and collection of title pages, fragments of books, specimens of paper, catalogues, book-plates, drawing, engravings, bindings, advertisements, and various interesting and curious pieces"
+John Freund collection of visual albums: https://www.instagram.com/visualalbums/
-was going to write a history of printing; 1707, published "Proposals for printing an Historical Account of that most universally celebrated, as well as useful Art of Typography
-this proposal is printed on a half-sheet, with a Life of William Caxton, first printer in the Abbey of Westminster and a list of his books
-=== John Bagford, Bookseller and Antiquary, by Milton McC. Gatch ===
-c saw Bagford as a biblioclast, "yet balanced scholarship in the present century has found Bagford to be a credible dealer and collector, despite his manifest shortcomings" (150)

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