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Title
Gaius Valerius Catullus. Tibullus et Propertius. Londini [London]: G. Pickering, 1824. Gift of Donald G. Davis Jr.; Novum Testamentum Græcum. Londini [London]: Gulielmus Pickering, 1828. Gift of the University Research Library, UCLA; James Grahame. The Sabbath, and Other Poems. London: Published by Jones & Company, 1825.
Subject
Gift of David Whitesell.
Description
Two of these miniature books—Tibullus et Propertius and a Greek New Testament—were published by William Pickering in the 1820s and bound in cloth prepared specifically for bookbinding. The former was likely a schoolbook, as indicated by the ink stains on its cover. William Pickering experimented with adapting cloth for bookbinding, which he began using in 1821 for his Diamond Classics series. The third example, The Sabbath, was bound in green silk likely intended for dressmaking. The cloth has since worn away almost entirely around the hinges of the spine.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School