#PublishersbindingThursday

[librarycompany]

Just in case you needed another reason to wash your hands... 

The vibrant emerald green cloth on these bindings gets its shocking color from copper acetoarsenite, more commonly known as arsenic. The inorganic pigment was also famously used in Victorian era wallpaper. 

The bindings seen here, along with others in our collection, were tested by Melissa Tedone, Conservator at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, in December 2019 as part of the Poison Book Project. The sample is comprised largely of green cloth case bindings, but some green paper (upper left) also tested positive. They have since been properly rehoused, along with updated safe handling instructions. Read more about the Poison Book Project here.

Wishing you all a wonderful and nontoxic #greenpublishersbindingThursday!

[illinoisrbml]

"A Man of Two Countries" by Alice Harriman, from our Nina Baym Western Women Writers Collection is unique in the fact that it is not only written by a woman, but also published by the author's own publishing company! #specialcollections #rarebooks #publishersbindingthursday https://www.instagram.com/p/CWJFjsOJaYy/?utm_medium=tumblr

[hdslibrary]

An early ghost story by John Oxenham (pseudonym of William Arthur Dunkerley), The Cedar Box [Y91 O98ce 1927] is also a beautiful example of a #publishersbinding. #publishersbindingthursday #thecedarbox #johnoxenham #shortstory #ahtl https://www.instagram.com/p/CMj-cxtJ8lF/?igshid=qs8oeekh3xzj

[histsciart]

Day 1 -- Book Cover Challenge!

I was challenged by @biodivlibrary on Twitter to post 7 days of book covers with no explanation. View here in BHL with thanks to @smithsonianlibraries for digitizing.

[bbrarebooks]

Happy #greenpublishersbindingthursday! This just came in— an excellent copy of Huckleberry Finn with all the first issue points, in the green publisher’s cloth— other bindings for this title include blue cloth, library (sheep), and deluxe (half morocco), but none are as recognizable or memorable as the green cloth. An iconic binding for an iconic book— Ernest Hemingway proclaimed that Huck Finn was the beginning of American literature: “There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.” #huckfinn #huckleberryfinn #marktwain #firstedition #rarebooks #twain #americanliterature #firstissue #publishersbindingthursday #publishersbindings (at Madison Avenue/33rd Street, Downtown Manhattan) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca7wxJ7usVL/?utm_medium=tumblr

[biodivlibrary]

We're celebrating the wonder of #trees for #Feathursday! Explore Tenants of the Trees (1907) by Clarence Hawkes, which was contributed for digitization by @amnh to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6478661 _________________________________________________ #Birds #Tree #PublishersBindingThursday #BookBinding #BookCovers #FancyBioBooks #FancyBookBinding #AMNH #AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory #BHLib #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #NatHist #ScientificIllustration #ScientificArt #OpenAccess #Libraries #Archives #SpecialCollections #LibrariesofInstagram #IGLibraries #IG_Libraries #AMNH

[muspeccoll]

#PublishersBindingThursday: the spines of two novels by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, aka Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, the most popular novelist of the late nineteenth century. Southworth started writing to support herself and her children after her husband abandoned the family in 1844. By 1855, Southworth had published ten novels and was hired to write for The New York Ledger. Between 1860 and 1910, she published an additional 60 novels and 8 short story collections. Although Southworth's work was never overtly political, some scholars claim that her stories set the stage for the influential work of her friend, Harriet Beecher Stowe.⠀ ⠀ PZ3.S728 Fat 1863 and PZ3.S728 S ⠀ ⠀ #publishersbinding #beautifulbook #bookstagram #bibliophile #booklover #rarebook #specialcollections #mizzou #universityofmissouri #libraries #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #ifttt

[crookedhousebooks]

We haven't posted for #publishersbindingthursday in a while, but thought this one needed to show off. Katherine Her Life and Mine in a Poem, by J G Holland. Scribner, 1869. Oh, and it's green so also #greenpublishersbindingthursday. #publishersbindings #antiquebook #vintagebook #oldbook #poetry #katherine #bookstagram #books📚 #booksofinstagram

[loynosca]

Kicking off the New Year with a colorful #publishersbindingthursday! This edition of “Russian Fables” was published in Moscow in 1966 and features charming illustrations throughout.

[librarycompany]

Happy Pride Month! You know us, we love to celebrate everything with publishers' bindings!

[illinoisrbml]

This is an example of one of the most detailed publishers' binding covers in the Nina Baym Western Women Writers Collection. The story is a classic example of the Western fiction in the Baym Collection. #publishersbindingthursday #specialcollections #rarebooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CVk62U8p9FQ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[hdslibrary]

Happy #publishersbindingthursday from Daniel Quorm and His Religious Notions (1877) [OLD DIV Y91 Pearse]. https://www.instagram.com/p/CDjOLDfpNNo/?igshid=1ekadg6rssz5k

[histsciart]

Even #bookcovers have #SciArt! This #FancyBioBooks cover is from Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (1853) by Emmanuel Le Maout in #BHLib: http://ow.ly/SFAx30hAG3b View more book covers on my @pinterest board for #PublishersBindingThursday: http://ow.ly/kBKZ30hAG5a _________________________________________________ #HistSciArt #HistoricalSciArt #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #BHLib #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #Science #Art #ArtAndScience #Illustration #ScienceArt #Artists #ArtHistory

[biodivlibrary]

Publishers’ Binding Thursday! 

Lovely gilt and dark blue book cover of The Common Moths of England (1870) by the Rev. John George Wood with illustrations by E. Smith, T.W. Wood, and W.S. Coleman. Contributed for digitization by @smithsonianlibraries.

[muspeccoll]

We ran across this beautiful #publishersbinding in the stacks this week. There was a limited edition of this work, but this is one of the "ordinary" copies bound in blue cloth with Beardsley's design for the cover of Salomé in gold.⠀ ⠀ 828 B375un ⠀ ⠀ #beardsley #aubreybeardsley #artnouveau #blue #gold #publishersbindingthursday #beautifulbook #bookstagram #bibliophile #booklover #rarebook #specialcollections #mizzou #universityofmissouri #libraries #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #ifttt

[crookedhousebooks]

Been sick for days and days. Easing back into the world with something simple but elegant for #publishersbindingthursday. Lovely gilt embossed boards on this 1899 signed, limited edition of Kit Kennedy. #publishersbindings #embossed #antiquebook #vintagebook #kitkennedy #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #booklove #oldbooks