Bookbinding Collection

(GC111)
 

Item Listing
by
Vicki Principi
 

Graphic Arts Collection
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Princeton University Library
2004


Contains bookbinding specimens, vendor samples, and prints of decorative bookbindings. The specimens include a filigree binding, early and modern oak boards, paper boards, clamshell boxes, and decorative paper and leather bindings. Dates and artists are unknown.

Box 1 contents [Prints of decorative bookbindings]:
Twenty-one prints of decorative bookbindings

Box 2 contents [Vendor book cover samples]:
Cloth book cover sample: 20 Schwedische erzahler von Heute
Cloth book cover sample: Besprache mit Goethe, by Johann Peter Eckermann [beige]
Cloth book cover sample: Besprache mit Goethe, by Johann Peter Eckermann [green]
Cloth book cover sample: Geschichte der seestadt Wismar
Cloth book cover sample: Helens Torn
Cloth book cover sample: Jugend, by W. E. Suskind
Cloth book cover sample: Kuchelbecker
Cloth book cover sample: Leviathan, by Julein Green
Cloth book cover sample: Love's poems old and new
Cloth book cover sample: Petemkin, by Soloveytchik
Cloth book cover sample: Rimske Imperium Jehovznik a Rozklad
Cloth book cover sample: The red pony, by John Steinbeck
Cloth book cover sample: Vierundzwanzig neue Deutsche erzahler
Decorative book cover sample: black leather
Decorative book cover sample: blue leather
Decorative book cover sample: green leather
Decorative book cover sample: red leather

Box 3 contents [Bookbinding specimens and vendor cloth sample books]:
Athol Manufacturing Company: Terek Cloth [sample book, 1937]
Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co.: Bancroft's Book Cloths [sample book, 1937]
Chiuso le mond antica moder
Early binding: oak boards and sewing remains
Modern oak boards with shell clasp
Tegg's prime jest book, vol. I [clamshell box]
Tegg's prime jest book, vol. II [clamshell box]
Untitled [Decorative cover: floral motif]
Untitled [Decorative cover: ornate gold border surrounding black lattice pattern]
Untitled [Two paper boards, uncovered]
Voyage Franco

Graphic Arts display case, 2-14-G:
Untitled [Filigree metal binding featuring the Madonna and Child]



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