Me IRL (Image from “The Children’s Book on How to Use Books and Libraries” by Moot and Baisden, 1937.)
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Tag: vintage books
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I just think this binding is the cutest little thing, what with its combination of floral paste paper and marbled paper. I also miiiiiight have said, “Oh! aren’t you the cutest little thing! Yes you are!” aloud when I was in our special collections reading room.
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For some good, clean fun…visit the sanitary fair!
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Today’s work: a brace of matching re-backs on a biography of architect Daniel H. Burnham.
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Fancy book butts!
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Really digging the typography on this book’s cover. That intertwining C and S!
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Spotted this cute cover with a dapper bicycle riding man on it. The red cloth of the spine has faded dramatically, but the cover was still a nice bright red, and the gold stamped decoration remains shiny. The book is “The Wheels of Chance” by H.G. Wells, and this edition was published in 1896.
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Paper curls from cleaning the spine of an old, big book in the conservation lab. I usually start out my spine cleaning by using a special dull knife to scrape away as much of the paper lining as I can, until I get down to the crash/mull/super fabric lining underneath. That’s when I switch to […]
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Golden anteater
Check out this gold stamped anteater on the cover of this book! This is a 1914 edition of “Through the Brazilian wilderness” by Theodore Roosevelt, currently in our general collections. You can also read it online on the HathiTrust website, for free!
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This is an old-books-about-Egypt appreciation post. I love publisher’s bindings, and Egyptian art, so this was a fun excursion into our stacks. These are all circulating books, by the way, not part of our special collections. Also I can’t get over that typeface they used on “Redemption of Egypt”. SO pretty! Anybody know what it’s called, […]