Title
Disbound boards:
Edward Jesse. An Angler’s Rambles. London: John Van Voorst, 1836; George Parker. Humorous Sketches; Satyrical Strokes, and Attic Observations. London: Printed for the author and sold by S. Hooper [n.d.]; Book of Common Prayer. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1828.
Edward Jesse. An Angler’s Rambles. London: John Van Voorst, 1836; George Parker. Humorous Sketches; Satyrical Strokes, and Attic Observations. London: Printed for the author and sold by S. Hooper [n.d.]; Book of Common Prayer. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1828.
Subject
Gift of Robert Milevski.
Description
With the permission of the academic libraries where he was working, preservation administrator Robert Milevski retrieved the boards of 19th
-century books that had been guillotined before being scanned for digitization or microfilming. Milevski wanted to preserve examples of publishers’ bookcloth and binders’ and booksellers’ tickets as research aids for identifying where books were made and marketed, and how they were purchased and used. Designed to be inconspicuous, binders’ tickets are rarely more than a few square centimeters in size. They could be printed via intaglio, letterpress, or lithography.
-century books that had been guillotined before being scanned for digitization or microfilming. Milevski wanted to preserve examples of publishers’ bookcloth and binders’ and booksellers’ tickets as research aids for identifying where books were made and marketed, and how they were purchased and used. Designed to be inconspicuous, binders’ tickets are rarely more than a few square centimeters in size. They could be printed via intaglio, letterpress, or lithography.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School