Well-Dressed Book on Flickr!
If you missed The Well-Dressed Book: Cloth Book Binding in the United States 1830-1920, which was on exhibit in the Maryland Room, Hornbake Library, from February - December 2008, now is your chance to see the exhibit online!
Images and captions from the Well-Dressed Book exhibit are now available via the Digital Collections Flickr account, digitalcollectionsum.
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From the description: Books as physical objects are significant reminders of popular tastes in the material culture of the 19th Century. An evolution in these tastes and the emergence of new styles over time are hallmarks of the cloth bindings on display.
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Lizzie Claire, or, The Last Penny, Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union. Binding Description: rust cloth binding with black and gold stamping Binding Decoration Description: rust linen pattern cloth stamped in black on front cover with daffodils and top and bottom runner, spine gold stamped with title Endpaper Description: brown, linen paper |
“The Well-Dressed Book” pays particular attention to the binding industry in 19th-Century Baltimore, an important secondary center of book production that has not received the attention it deserves.