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This publisher’s case binding of red diagonal fine-ribbed cloth has been printed in silver and blue to create a 44-star American flag, plus titling. An early example of such binding décor and style, it has been characterized as proto-Pop Art.

The publisher’s boards are covered in pink-hued paper, with a printed titling-label. Normal expectations at the time were that the books would be properly bound in leather, replacing such now-rare survivors.

The substantial employment of cloth as a binding covering began in the first half of the 1820s. This was a new commercial practice, and the bindings were intended for the life of the book. Ribbed cloth in solid colors, as on these bindings, was one…

The substantial employment of cloth as a binding covering began in the first half of the 1820s. This was a new commercial practice, and the bindings were intended for the life of the book. Ribbed cloth in solid colors, as on these bindings, was one…

This is an unused publisher’s case binding, customarily affixed by adhesive to strong endpapers and with other reinforcements, but not actually bound in by sewing. In 1893 the Club asked publishers at home and abroad for samples of their commercial…

This boxed assemblage comprises eight thin volumes in embossed cartonnage bindings covered in papier porcelaine, with hand-colored engraved illustrations. Each covering is in a pastel color: rose pink Paris, cream white London, pale blue St.…

This polychrome tan calf is a Patent Stereographic Binding, registered by William McAdam and created by Anthony L. Harrison in this same year. It features colored stampings by inked wooden blocks, producing the appearance of leather onlays. It is…

This American sheepskin covering is called a run marble binding, inspired by the striations of rock formations, sometimes also called Prussian marble or Spanish marble. The style flourished in the 1820s and 1830s in New England and the Middle…

A sturdy binding of vellum in polychrome décor featuring the “Star of Bethlehem” protects this anonymous collection of Christian prayers for church and home. Comparable 18th-century works and bindings survive in Germany, and such volumes were also…

The substantial, originally blank-paper single gathering is sewn into a wallet-shaped binding of heavy vellum in the shape of an elongated envelope, the triangular flap secured with a wraparound strap. Such ledger bindings, once widespread, were…