#PrintedPatternCloth

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Yesterday we shared a plate with images of mountains and volcanoes from a recent acquisition. Today we’re sharing its front cover for #PublishersBindingThursday! 

The striped printed pattern bookcloth nearly obscures the blind-stamped decoration on our copy of Diagrams of Geology, History, and Physcial Geography (London, c1850).

Diagrams of geology, history, and physical geography. London: J. Reynolds, 1849-1850. 

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Our copy of Lydia Howard Sigourney’s The Weeping Willow (Hartford, 1847) is bound in a striped cloth that nearly obscures the blind-blocked decorative border on the cover. #PublishersBindingThursday

Sigourney, L. H. Hartford : Henry H. Parsons. 1847.    

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We’re joining @rutgers_scua and @rarebkcat for the July #JoyofGLAM challenge! We will be posting joy-inspiring images from our collection each Wednesday for the rest of the month.

To kick things off we’re sharing this video of a small portion of a recently acquired collection of publishers’ bindings featuring printed pattern book cloth. If you’ve been following us for awhile then you know that we love publishers’ bindings here at the Library Company, and seeing this new collection in the stacks every day always makes us smile.

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It’s a #PublishersBindingThursday double feature! Both of our copies of Willis’ Sacred Poems (New York, 1847) are bound in a green and black printed-pattern cloth. We can’t decide which is our favorite. Can you?

Browse the Library Company’s database of 19th-Century Cloth Bindings to see more bindings in our collection

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867. Sacred poems. / By N.P. Willis.. New-York: : Published by Clark & Austin., MDCCCXLVII. [1847] 126 p. :  12 cm

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The floral motif of this printed-pattern bookcloth nearly obscures the blind and gilt stamping on the front cover of our copy of A Description of the City of New York, published in 1847.

Decorated bookcloth, including printed-pattern and ribbon-embossed cloth, peaked in popularity in the late 1830s into the 1840s. The trend became less popular beginning in the 1850s, when heavy gilt-stamped designs on ungrained bookcloth dominated the market.

Browse the Library Company’s database of 19th-Century Cloth Bindings to see more!

Holley, O. L. 1847, A description of the city of New York New York : J. Disturnell 1847. 10 cm x 15 cm x 1 cm