Bookbinding notes

This material is held atEdinburgh University Library Heritage Collections

Scope and Content

These 16-pages of manuscript notes on book-binding have been bound together in a blue heavy-card/textile cover. The notes were handwritten in pencil then written over in ink. The notes are illustrated with pencil drawings. The notes were produced in September 1941.

Administrative / Biographical History

Agnes M. Kindberg - a former member of staff of Edinburgh College of Art - may have exhibited at the 39th annual exhibition of painting, sculpture and craftwork in the Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Mound, Edinburgh, on Saturday, 23rd September 1963.

One of Kindberg's oils on canvas was called 'Summer Roses', and this appeared as No.248 in an auction sale catalogue published by Richardson and Smith (Whitby) in April 2008.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Material acquired April 2010. Accession no: E2010.12

Archivist's Note

Compiled by Graeme D. Eddie, Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections.

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