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The Well-Dressed Book

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

The Well-Dressed Book

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
Maryland Room Gallery, R. Lee Hornbake Library,
University of Maryland

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
R. Lee Hornbake Library, University of Maryland

Hornbake Library and Maryland Room Gallery hours and directions

For more information, please contact Doug McElrath at dmcelrat@umd.edu or 301-405-9210.

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