Library Company of Philadelphia
We are mesmerized by the rare and unusual printed-pattern cloth on our copy of The American Poultry Book (1861). Notice how the blind ornamental blocking on the front cover is barely visible due to the busy pattern of the cloth.
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A Feathursday edition of Publishers’ Binding Thursday! Published in 1850, The Book of Birds features a stunning color-blocked white cloth binding. #PutaBirdOnIt
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1850, The Book of birds.
Philadelphia : George S. Appleton.
1850.
11.5 cm x 14.5 cm x 2.5 cm
We love the Eastlake-inspired decorative gilt blocking on our copy of Beautiful Snow; and Other Poems (1869).
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This beautiful gilt stamped binding showing an emotive portrait of a hound can only illicit cute aggression. #WetNoseWednesday #giltypleasures
Youatt, William. The dog. New York : Leavitt and Allen, 1846.
This beautiful gilt illustration caught our eye, in our 1874 purple cloth binding of Richard Wagner and the music of the future : history and aesthetics.
We love the Eastlake-inspired decorative gilt blocking on our copy of Bella Zilfa Spencer’s Right and Wrong, or, She Told the Truth at Last, published by W.J. Holland & Co. in 1870.
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