An exhibit and accompanying symposium celebrating the many facets of cloth book binding by American publishers in the nineteenth century.

• The Exhibition:

The Well-Dressed Book: Cloth Book Binding in the United States, 1830-1920

An exhibition examining perspectives in nineteenth-century publishers' cloth bindings.

February 2008 - December 2008

• Photographs of the Exhibit

• Well-Dressed Book Exhibit on Flickr
  




• The Symposium:

The Well-Dressed Book: A Symposium on Nineteenth-Century American Cloth Binding

A daylong symposium featuring scholars, curators, and collectors exploring cloth publishers' bindings in 19th-century America.

March 14, 2008

View the current exhibit in the Maryland Room Gallery.