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American Publishers’ Bindings, 1829-1975 (Southern Connecticut State University)
Before the Industrial Revolution enabled cheap mass production of cloth book bindings, books published until about 1820 were sold unbound (and then custom bound by wealthier owners) or in temporary wrappers. As the 19th century progressed, the advances in manufacturing facilitated development of publishers’ bindings, and they soon evolved into an art form of their own. This collection includes examples of such bindings from American publishers in the Buley Library Special Collections.
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Edition Binding
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Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue architectural drawings and papers, 1882-1980
This collection contains architectural drawings, photographs, business records and reference materials related to the projects and designs of Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and his successor firm, Mayers, Murray & Philips, primarily in the New York City region. A large portion of the collection consists of personal and professional correspondence to and from Goodhue from the early 1900s until his death in 1926.
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M. G. Sawyer Collection of Decorative Bindings at the Delaware Art Museum
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A few more book covers An article in "The Independent" that lists several book covers and their designers, and appeals for the better recognition of book cover designers.
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Modern book illustrators and their work
Special number of the International studio, 1914 Autumn
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W. A. Dwiggins : a life in design
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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
"About the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project:
The Victorian era was flooded with poetry. The exploding market for serial print, where most Victorians read poems, meant that periodicals (including annuals, magazines, and newspapers) were the main poetry publishers. And the periodical poetry was extensive and varied. The goal of the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project (DVPP), generously funded by two SSHRC Insight Grants (2017-2023, 2023-2028), is to uncover, collate, and analyze a large body of periodical poetry, based on a generous and varied range of Victorian periodical print in the University of Victoria’s Special Collections.
Our guiding questions are to ask: What was the most read Victorian poetry? How do the literary, formal, and material features of periodical poetry challenge scholarly taxonomies of genre, prosody, and print culture? How does Victorian periodical poetry offer a more historically nuanced literary history? DVPP allows users to conduct quantitative analysis of literary texts in order to challenge traditional literary histories, by giving ways of searching evidence of literary change over time (e.g. rhyme innovations, types of authorship, genre trends, developments in illustration, changes to publication practices).
DVPP offers three inter-related projects: a digital index of all periodical poems and poetry translations in English across full runs of 28 periodicals, magazines, and newspapers; a digital edition of representative periodical poetry, encoded for poetic and material features; a personography based on poets, translators, and illustrators."
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Art in the Holiday Books
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A descriptive list of the publications on Messrs Copeland and Day : issued at 69 Cornhill : Boston, 1896-1897
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The men who drew for boys (and girls) : 101 forgotten illustrators of children's books 1844-1970
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British women artists : a biographical dictionary of 1,000 women artists in the British decorative arts
"This comprehensive volume presents the biographies of 1,000 women who were active in the British decorative arts over the last few centuries ... All made valuable contributions in areas such as stained glass, metalwork, pottery, woodcarving, illustration, bookbinding and decoration, sculpture, decorative embroidery, decorative jewellery, and illumination."--Page 4 of cover.
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The Pre-Raphaelite illustrators : the published graphic art of the English Pre-Raphaelites and their associates
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Collection of British Novels, 1890-1920
From the collection description:
"The Collection of British Novels, circa 1890-1920 consists of over 1,204 single-volume novels and short story collections by British and Empire writers, published in the United Kingdom from the 1890s through the 1920s. The collection features a wide range of the period’s popular fiction genres, including adventure novels, fictions of empire, historical novels, mysteries, romance fiction, thrillers, and comedies of manners. The collection was put together by Jarndyce Booksellers, an antiquarian book dealer specializing in 18th and 19th century English literature and history."
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Jarndyce Single-Volume Nineteenth-Century Novel Collection, 1823-1914
From the collection description:
" Jarndyce has specialised in 18th and 19th century English Literature and History since 1969. Most of our catalogues include three-decker novels, first editions and reprints of Victorian fiction. Our most used bibliographies are Sadleir and Wolff.
For most of our forty years in business we have also bought and sold major and minor poetry published during our period. Libraries have become increasingly interested in 'background' verse by minor poets, their writings reflecting the trends and fashions of the century. Indeed, Stanford purchased a collection of minor poetry from our good friends Chris and Michelle Kohler.
Partly as a response to this widening interest, we decided to accumulate 'minor' one-volume novels - from a period when the mainstream was dominated by two and three deckers and novels published in weekly or monthly parts. The total number in the single volume novel collection has now risen above 2,000 with just under 1,500 'Not in Wolff'. It is both a remarkable collection of minor fiction and a history of 19th century publishers’ bindings."
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Art in the Book Covers: The Custom of Designers to Sign Their Productions
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Decorative Design
Part of the Wiley Technical Series for Vocational and Industrial Schools. According to the title page, Chase was "Instructor in Decorative Design at the College of the City of New York and at the Woman's Art School of Cooper Union."
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American Decorated Publishers' Bindings, 1872-1929 (Vol. 2)
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American Decorated Publishers' Bindings, 1872-1929 (Vol. 3)
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A fixed rule of design : the book art of Bertha Stuart : Boston Public Library, October-December, 2009
Includes an exhibition checklist and a reproduction of the article "Bertha Stuart" by Barbara Adams Hebard first published in Athenaeum items, a library letter from the Boston Athenaeum, No. 119, March 1999.
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Price guide and bibliographic checklist for children's & illustrated books for the years 1880-1960
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The art of the book; a review of some recent European and American work in typography, page decoration & binding
British types of printing books. By B. H. Newdigate.
Fine bookbinding in England. By D. Cockerell.
The art of the book in Germany. By L. Deubner.
The art of the book in France. By E. A. Taylor.
The art of the book in Austria. By A. S. Levetus.
The art of the book in Hungary
The art of the book in Sweden. By A. Brunius.
The art of the book in America. By W. D. Orcutt
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Boston Public Library: Fine and Historic Bookbindings
"The works of Sarah Whitman, T. B. Hapgood, Amy M. Sacker, Marion L. Peabody, and Ethel Reed are well represented in the collection, as is the work of William A. Dwiggins, Bruce Rogers, the Boston publisher Copeland and Day, and the pioneering 19th-century Boston bookbinder Benjamin Bradley."
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G.A. Henty, 1832-1902 : a bibliographical study of his British editions, with short accounts of his publishers, illustrators and designers, and notes on production methods used for his books
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Bruce Rogers, a bibliography : hitherto unrecorded work 1889-1925, complete work 1925-1936
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Bruce Rogers, designer of books
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19th Century bindings in the Historical Book Arts collection, University of Washington
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American Art annual for 1900
An annual directory of American artists.
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American Art annual for 1898
An annual directory of American artists.
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New Book Covers
Article in "Brush and Pencil, Volume 5".
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Aesthetic tracts : innovation in late-nineteenth-century book design
"A study of how new theories of design in the late 19th century, including the introduction of Japanese artistic principles, new printing technology, the emergence of the consumer society, transformation in the publishing industry, and the influence of international expositions worked to change the idea of the book at the fin-de-siecle. Contains 16 color plates and 50 black-and-white illustrations, an appendix, notes and index"
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Twentieth century cover designs
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American Decorated Covers, 1890-1930: A Collection
Contains a variety of book covers by various designers. There is a visual index of designer symbols and initials in the back.
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Monograms of Victorian and Edwardian Artists
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A New Checklist of Books Designed by Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon
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Elkin Mathews : publisher to Yeats, Joyce, Pound
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American Artists: Signatures and Monograms, 1800-1989
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L'art dans la décoration extérieure des livres en France et a l'étranger
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Monogramm-Lexikon; internationales Verzeichnis der Monogramme bildender Künstler seit 1850
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Catalogue of the Ian Kenyur-Hodgkins Collection of Laurence Housman (1865-1959)
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W.W. Denslow
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The dictionary of 19th century British book illustrators and caricaturists
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Book notes: a monthly literary magazine and review of new books
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Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Under the Auspices of the Providence Art Club
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A few examples of the work of Carlton illustrators together with a note on modern bookmaking
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J.E.H. MacDonald : designer : an anthology of graphic design, illustration and lettering
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A Guild of Designers: The work of Carlton Illustrators
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Drawings by Gleeson White
Consists of White's drawings and proofs for book covers.
Book jacket designs include: 348 drawings in crayon, pencil, pen and ink, watercolor, and gouache. Book covers by White recognized the works of the following people: Robert Browning, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, and Thomas Gainsborough. Includes cookbooks, Girl's own paper, and handbooks for military organizations.
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Sample book covers by Thomas Watson Ball
Untitled album containing sample book covers (front cover only): cloth or paper, stamped or printed in colors, in varying styles of design and illustration.
Most of the books for which these covers were designed were published by Dodd, Mead & Co. and Harper and Brothers; Ball was art editor at the latter, 1894-1900. Some of the published covers differ in cloth and ink colors from these samples.
Bookplate on inside front cover: Thomas Watson Ball, designer of book covers, Garden City, N.Y. Lettered above in ms.: Thomas Watson Ball, Society of illustrators School, 480 Lexington Ave.
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Collection of Materials by and Relating to the Decorative Designers Firm, 1895-1973
Emma Redington (Lee) Thayer (ca. 1874-ca. 1973) was the co-founder of Decorative Designers, a New York City based firm that produced binding designs, dust jackets, book illustrations, and advertising material. She specialized in conventionalized decorations and designed most of the bindings, did some lettering, and was successful at dust jacket illustrations. She also published over sixty mystery novels as well as children's books. The collection consists of material related to the work of Lee Thayer and the Decorative Designers (DD) including correspondence, taped interviews, articles and newsclippings related to the life and career of Thayer, dust jackets and novels by Thayer, and photocopied bookplate designs, binding designs, and dust jackets by DD.
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Decorated cloth in America : publishers' bindings, 1840-1910
Contains Sue Allen's essay about the book-cover stamps engraved by John Feely, and Gullans' article about Sarah Wyman Whitman and Frank Hazen(plug).
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Cover treasure : the life and art of Margaret Armstrong
"The Golden Age of American Publishers’ Decorated Cloth Book Covers
For a brief twenty years as the 19th turned into the 20th century, Americans were often beguiled, entertained, and sometimes dazzled by the attractively designed and often gold-laden covers of the books that they read. In a period when art was breaking from academy-bound tradition in search of new directions, publishers realized as never before that to sell a book, you needed an attention-getting book cover.
Among the hundreds of artists who designed these covers, one stood above the rest. Scribner’s, Putnam’s, and Dodd Mead were among the publishers vying for the talents of Margaret Armstrong. Her inventive, elegant, and beautifully colored designs and lettering were self-identifying; they hardly needed the tiny monogram that she often added to her designs. During her career, she would design over 300 book covers and decorate the pages of many books with her drawings. Her art would become visible in the libraries and on the parlor tables of thousands of American homes. In time, this relatively unheralded period of American publishing history would be rediscovered. Today, examples of Margaret Armstrong’s work are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Yet Margaret Armstrong, a descendant of famous Americans, a highly successful literary figure in her later years, but most importantly the pre-eminent artist of the book cover in her time, remains unknown to the general public." - Description from Black Dome Press website
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The Glasgow Style
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American Decorated Publishers' Bindings, 1872-1929 (Vol. 1)
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Arts and Crafts Book Covers
Produced to accompany the exhibition 'From Rosetti to Voysey: Arts & Crafts Stamped Book Cover Design', at Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House, 10 May-15 July 2012.
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The books of WAD: A bibliography of the Books Designed by W.A. Dwiggins
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The proper decoration of book covers : the life and work of Alice C. Morse Includes a bibliographic checklist (pages 47-91) of known examples of the work of Alice C. Morse.
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Laurence Housman as a book binding designer
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Modern book-bindings and their designers
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The Visionists of Boston
Bostonians know their city is a special place for arts and culture, with a fascinating bohemian past, the details of which are mostly forgotten. This film re-introduces a mysterious but influential group of 1890s friends that included photographer/publisher F. Holland Day (a mentor to both Kahlil Gibran and William Steichen) writer/architect Ralph Adams Cram, poet Louise Imogen Guiney, Painter Thomas Buford Meteyard, and designer/architect Bertram Goodhue. Together they launched a quest to preserve beauty, truth, and friendship in a rapidly changing world.
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Charles Buckles (C.B.) Falls papers
The Charles Buckles Falls papers include documentation of the life and work of the American artist, including original drawings, proofs, and printed exemplars of his posters and illustrations. The papers also include correspondence and drafts of poetry by Falls.
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Bertha Stuart Collection
This collection contains Barbara Adams Hebard’s research on Bertha Stuart, a book cover designer active at the beginning of the twentieth century. Hebard gathered this material with the intent of writing a biography about Stuart. The research became the basis for an exhibit of Stuart’s designs that was featured in the Rare Books Department of the Boston Public Library entitled “A Fixed Rule of Design: The Book Art of Bertha Stuart”. The catalog for the exhibit, Hebard’s correspondence with historical societies, museums, and Stuart’s family as well as correspondence between Stuart and Henry Holt, her employer, is included.
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Arthur W. Rushmore papers (University of Delaware Special Collections MSS 0208)
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Decorated Publishers Bindings, Grand Valley State University Digital Collections
From the early 1870s to roughly 1930, many publishers issued their commercial book covers with a remarkable variety of graphic designs and illustrations. This sixty-year period saw many artists and designers contributing to this art form. While some can be identified from their style or initials, others remain unknown.
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Publishers' Bindings Collection, University of Colorado Boulder
The Publishers' Bindings Collection primarily consists of late nineteenth and twentieth century American books bound in decorated publisher's cloth. Part of the collection was purchased from Charles S. Kamen, a private collector, in 1996. It has been augmented with books from the Libraries collection, and a second collection assembled by David R. Anderson and purchased in 1997 from Margolis and Moss.
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Publishers' Bindings at Ohio University
The Publishers’ Bindings digital collection draws on the Rare Book Collection of the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, including many books from the Juvenile Literature Collection. The focus is on digitizing certain decorative and unique-to-our-copy elements of select books, rather than providing digital access to the entire text. In many cases, only select views and pages have been digitized while, when available, an external link to the full-text version is provided in the object description.
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Margaret Armstrong and American Trade Bindings, with a checklist of her designed bindings and covers
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Trade Bindings Research Newsletter
A newsletter dedicated to research regarding trade bindings, aka publishers bindings.
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Publishers' Bindings, Boston Athenaeum Digital Collections
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Beauty for Commerce: Publishers' Bindings, 1830-1910
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Bound for Beauty (Online Exhibit)
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American Decorated Publishers Bindings: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library Digital Collections
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Publishers’ Bindings: book designer monograms & initials
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American Trade Bindings and Beyond
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Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books [University of Wisconsin Madison]
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The art of publishers' bookbindings, 1815-1915
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Artists of the book in Boston, 1890-1910
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Paul Woodroffe’s Designs for Book Bindings
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Messrs. Copeland & Day, 69 Cornhill, Boston, 1893-1899
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Bibliography of books and magazines with covers by Beardsley
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The art of American book covers,1875-1930
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A history of Stone & Kimball and Herbert S. Stone & Co with a bibliography of their publications, 1893-1905
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American Trade Bindings and Their Designers, 1880–1915
Pages 32-67.
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Collectible Books: Some New Paths