We’re continuing our Fourth of July weekend with a very patriotic #LibraryShelfieSaturday and one of our favorite topics: American publishers’ cloth bindings! We especially love the white and red striped cloth binding shown in the center, and that gorgeous blue silk moiré binding. 

Advice to young ladies on their duties and conduct in life. / By T.S. Arthur. Boston: Phillips and Sampson, 110 Washington Street., 1848.

Imagination and fancy; or Selections from the English poets. / By Leigh Hunt.  New York: : Wiley & Putnam, 161 Broadway., 1845.

The war of four thousand years. / By P.S. White and H.R. Pleasants. Philadelphia : Griffith & Simon, 1846, [c1845] 

The Library Company’s copy of A View of the American Slavery Question, an anti-slavery discourse by E.P. Barrows, is bound in a diamond-diaper grained bookcloth. The grain nearly obscures the words stamped on the cover, which reads: “J.S. Taylor Publisher”.

Browse the Library Company’s database of 19th-Century Cloth Bindings to see more!

1836, A view of the American slavery question. Barrows, E. P. New York : John S. Taylor.  10 cm x 15 cm x 1.5 cm

Though we are a little late to participate in the #weekofroygbiv challenge, we thought it would be fun to share this tartan publishers’ cloth binding from 1898. This printed pattern book cloth is striped with red, green, blue, black, yellow, and white.

Browse the Library Company’s database of 19th-Century Cloth Bindings to see more! 

1898, Penelope’s Progress. Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Boston and New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company.

“Social comfort to our social [media] friends”–page 146

Happy New Year from everyone at the Library Company of Philadelphia!

We are excited to share this book of toasts for the 2016 Global Book Lovers Toast. Though small in size, Every Body’s Toast Book and Convivial Companion is chock-full of toasts and sentiments for a variety of occasions. 

And since it is Publishers’ Binding Thursday, we can’t help but swoon over that gold spine-title! 

Browse the Library Company’s database of 19th-Century Cloth Bindings to see more! 

Adept. Every body’s toast book, and convivial companion; …/ By An Adept. Philadelphia : Fisher & Brother, No. 15 North Sixth Street, et al., [1851.]  256 p. :  ill. ;  12 cm.