Estudo das estruturas das encadernações de livrosdo século XIX na coleção Rui Barbosa: Uma contribuição para a conservação-restauração de livrosraros no Brasil

Abstract

This dissertation describes a research concerning the structures ofbookbindings of Rui Barbosas library collection dated from the XIXcentury. The research aimed to identify a specific style of binding whichhas emerged in Brazil with the arrival of the Royal Family and with thelaunch of the Royal press in 1808, when it was established in Rio deJaneiro the first printing house and with them, the first foreignbookbinders. There search for the Brazilians bookbindings produced surprising results. There were found in the collection many books which were definitely bound in Brazil. The labels in the inner part of the bookcovers, in the face sheets, or the golden printing on the inside of thecovers were evidence that some books were definitely bound in Brazil.From the analysis of these sources we developed a methodology usingthe labels to identify those who made them. After the demount of thebooks we catalog the process and we made some illustrations in orderto represent the original structures of the selected books aiming to usethem as technical support for conservators and restorers in thedevelopment most accurate of conservation-restoration projects of rarebooks in Brazil through the knowledge of the technology ofconstruction.