Most of my blogs about the volumes in the Rare Book Room have dealt with the collections, the writers, or the content of the volumes. This time I just want to give you a chnce to look at some of the beautiful and varied bindings which are represented in the RBR. Pictures don’t do them justice, however!
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- Children of the Night (1897). Tri-colored, embossed linen grain cloth.
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- Cockalorum (1948). Quarter bound maroon leather with decorative cloth design representing the Golden Cockerel Press.
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- The Dynasts (1927). Quarter bound vellum with decorative textured cloth.
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- The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion (1948). Half bound orange morocco with cream cloth covers and gilt decoration.
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- The Jimmyjohn Boss (1901). Red linen weave cloth boards stamped in gilt with pictorial overlay.
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- Johnson and Queeney (1932). Marbeled cloth with leather spine label.
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- The Lady of the Lake (1810). “Tree Calf,”: Calf treated to have a tree (wood) pattern.
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- The Lady or the Tiger? (1884). Two color pictorial cloth stamped in black and lettered in gilt.
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- The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1860). Decorative cloth boards stamped in gilt.
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- Lenore (1886). Crocodile grain cloth boards with ribbon inserted; title stamped in gilt.
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- The Luck of Roaring Camp (1941). Bound in woven burlap with paper label on front cover.
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- Marmion; a tale of Flodden Field (1808). “Tree calf” with gilt tooling.
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- The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson (1882). Decorative cloth with some gilt.
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- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837). Maroon and tan calf with gilt dentelle tooling.
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- The Rambler (1828). Sheepskin in variegated colors with gilt tooling.
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- Rokeby: a poem (1813). Half bound leather with marbled cloth boards.
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- The Romance of Tristan and Iseult (1903). Half bound green goatskin with marbled cloth.
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- Shaw on Women (1992). Hand-bound art-noveau patterned fabric binding with gilt-stamped leather spine label.
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- This Fortunate Man (1948). Quarter bound mustard cloth boards wtih alphabet gilt stamped.
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- Three Plays of Shakespeare (1909). Decorated red cloth boards with publisher’s logo stamped in black.
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- Together and Alone, two short novels (1945). Quarter bound cream canvas with marbled cloth boards and gilt spine title.
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- Vanity Fair (1849). Three quarter bound maroon goatskin and cloth with gilt tooling and raised cords on spine.
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- Life of St. Thomas a Becket (1495). Vellum binding.
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Green pictorial cloth, blind-stamped, some in gilt.
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- Luther Bible (1686). Black calf with gilt tooling.
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