Tag: binding

Post author By digitalcellulose
Post date November 4, 2015

Edge decoration and marbled endpapers on an 18th century French binding.

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Post author By digitalcellulose
Post date July 28, 2015

Circulation just sent me this book, which apparently is actually the halves of TWO different books bound together accidentally by our commercial binder. As far as I can tell, the first half of the book is “What we talk about when we talk about love" by Raymond Carver, and the second half is a book by […]

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