Index of the Shapes of Binding Tickets and Stamps/ Pallets in the Collins Collection of 'Particular Bindings'…

 

Index of the Shapes of Binders' Tickets and Stamps/ Pallets in the Collins Collection of Particular Bindings…

Compiled by Edmund M. B. King

Introduction

Binder’s tickets have a long history of use in the UK. (According to modern parlance, they are a form of paratext.) This index is based upon some seven hundred Sale Catalogue records of the Collins collection, entered into the BL database of Bookbindings. (Collins, John. Particular bindings, … Catalogue 14 of George Baytun. Bath: George Baytun, [2006])

The numbers cited are those of the Collins Sale Catalogue of 2006.   For the purpose of this index, a binder’s ticket is a small, separate piece of paper, (occasionally leather) often dyed with colour, on which the details of the binder are printed/ stamped. Frequently, there is a border (decorative or of rules) printed on the margins of the ticket; rules are plain, normally straight, lines which frame the outside edge of the ticket.

 It seems likely that the details of the tickets were printed onto sheets of paper, and then cut up to form one individual ticket. Scans of the tickets show the imperfections of the cutting-up process. An interesting sub-category is the octagon shaped tickets. In many instances, the extra trimming needed to convert a rectangle into an octagon, has been done. In other examples, this has not been accomplished, so the shape of the ticket is a rectangle, with an octagon printed on its borders.

Tickets are frequently pasted onto the front or rear pastedown. Stamps (or pallets), citing the binder’s name, are often used, of ink or gilt, and these are recorded. The results offered here mostly exclude tickets of the ‘big five’ London binderies of the nineteenth century: Burn, Bone & Son, Edmonds & Remnants, Leighton Son & Hodge, Westley. Judgements about a ticket shape may differ. The indulgence of you, the viewer, is hoped for, as subjectivity plays its part when assigning a category for a shape.

Full details of each book, and of the binder, can be found by typing the word   Collins   and the Collins sale catalogue number into the search box at:

https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/

This should bring up the full record, with a scan of the binder’s ticket.

Examples of binders’ tickets can be found in the essay on the Collins collection at:

http://victorianbookbindings.blogspot.com/2023/05/john-collins-collection-of-particular.html

Scans of the book covers and the binders’ tickets can also be found at:

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/edmundking/collins-collection-of-particular-bindings/

INDEX

Pallets/ Stamps

Ink stamp (on paper/ cloth) 1, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18 (oval shape), 21, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 37, 36, 42, 77, 92, 93, 98, 99, 100, 115, 119, 128 (oval shape), 129 (oval shape), 130, 132, 139, 166, 190, 193, 204, 216, 233, 242, 244, 248, 257, 259, 269, 289, 335, 340, 354*, 356, 360,  366,  367, 368, 369, 392,  410, 434, 436, 450, 465, 467, 468, 477, 479, 491, 494, 495, 496, 498, 499, 500, 502, 503, 504, 510, 522, 538, 539, 543, 544, 546, 548, 549, 551, 559, 566,  571, 575, 576, 579, 580, 596, 597, 602, 604, 606, 620, 623, 636, 640, 642, 643, 644, 645, 648, 649, 650, 651, 652, 653(on cloth), 656, 659, 665, 667, 672, 700, 701, 710, 722, 723, 725, 730, 734, 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 766, 781, 782, 791, 793, 797, 798,  802, 812, 813, 829, 840, 845, 869, 917, 921, 945, 973, 978, 986, 1000

Blind/ Embossed: 24, 64, 65, 226,338, 397 (circle), 402, 419, 421, 422, 423, 424, 427, 443, 444, 445, 452, 456, 509, 588, 595, 599, 601, 661, 703, 705, 707, 712, 720, 755, 756, 757, 761, 801, 806, 831, 835, 836, 854, 867, 913, 919, 920, 932, 974

Gold/ Gilt stamp (most usually on leather): 44, 89, 118, 120, 167, 183, 185, 186, 187, 188, 203, 209, 232, 243, 270, 336, 338, 339, 362, 412, 464, 469, 493, 528, 542, 570, 572, 573, 598, 599, 638, 666, 732, 736, 772, 786, 852, 909, 914, 916, 930, 931, 972, 976

            Stamp on clasp: 345, 346, 350, 351

Tickets

Paper (ink printed; gilt)

            Cartouche: 953

            Circle: 58, 61, 116, 200, 212, 531, 943

Diamond: 126, 224, 401, 404, 405, 406, 489, 524, 637, 704, 715, 721, 790, 800, 994

Octagon: 11, 57, 90, 94, 121, 122, 123, 143, 153, 164, 165, 192, 271, 414, 486, 516, 537, 629, 716, 773, 774, 775, 808, 814, 880, 893, 942

            Oval: 110, 223, 292, 375, 376, 378, 379, 591, 592, 937, 992, 993

Rectangle: 3, 4, 5, 8, 39, 41, 45 (octagon and diamond printed), 46, 50, 53, 55, 56, 73, 74, 75, 78, 80, 84, 87, 95, 102, 105, 107, 109, 111, 114, 133 (oval printed), 135, 137, 138, 140+,142, 145*, 147, 150, 155, 160, 180, 181, 189, 194, 196*, 197, 199, 202*, 207, 208, 217*, 222, 230, 235, 236, 238, 239, 240*, 245, 246, 249, 250, 251*, 253, 260, 263, 264, 265, 266, 273, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 287, 290, 293, 294*, 295,  298, 302, 303, 306, 307, 308, 357, 358, 385, 386, 387, 388, 394*, 396*, 398, 407, 415, 418+, 430, 433, 437+, 439, 440*, 447, 449, 453, 454, 455*, 466, 471, 473, 475, 478, 483, 484, 487, 488, 507, 511, 513, 514, 515, 532, 536, 554, 560, 561, 565, 569, 587, 590, 594, 608, 609, 610, 611, 613, 616, 617, 618, 628, 646, 654(gilt), 655 (gilt), 663, 664, 670, 671, 674, 675, 676*, 677*, 678, 679, 680, 681, 682, 683, 684, 685, 686, 687, 688, 689, 690, 691, 692, 695*, 696, 697, 698, 708, 709, 711, 713, 714, 717*, 718*, 719, 724*, 765*, 767*, 768, 770, 771, 777, 778, 779, 788, 789, 803, 804, 805, 807, 808, 809, 817, 827, 832, 834, 837, 839, 842, 849, 850, 855, 864, 865, 866,  868, 872, 874, 875, 876, 881, 882, 886, 887, 895, 900, 901, 903*, 915, 928, 933, 936, 941, 946, 950, 954, 955, 956, 957, 983, 985, 988, 989, 994, 995, 996, 997, 999, 1001

            Shield: 54, 91, 97, 144, 220, 261, 815, 904, 935

Square: 198, 276, 305, 361, 409, 470%, 527, 540, 564

Other

            Inscription: 178, 291, 308+, 520, 910, 998

            ‘Imitation’ tickets printed (on endpaper) 372, 374, 380, 381, 384, 614, 632   

            Invoice: 231

            Mauchline binding: 746, 747, 748, 749, 750, 752, 753

            Snakeskin binding: 332

Not a Ticket/ Pallet: 20, 299, 300, 301,310, 312, 313, 316, 317, 318, 322, 323, 326, 329, 331, 490a, 490b, 492, 508, 567, 607, 673, 726, 745, 758, 759, 762, 763, 764, 780, 784, 811, 821, 823, 825, 826, 860, 861, 862, 863, 888, 890, 891, 892, 896, 905, 906, 907, 908, 912, 918, 923, 924, 925, 929, 934, 939, 940, 944, 948, 949, 951, 952, 958, 959, 960, 961, 962, 963, 964, 965, 966, 968, 969, 970, 971, 975, 979, 981, 982, 990,  987,991  

Printed/ Printed Notice 68, 101, 161, 348, 349, 370, 411, 413, 417, 459, 460, 482, 519, 525, 526, 529, 784, 583, 585, 586, 619, 630, 635, 647, 662, 742, 743, 760, 769,792, 795, 801, 824, 843, 857, 897, 898, 899, 947, 980  

*= rules printed on borders form an octagon

+= rules printed on borders form an oval

% = rules printed on borders to form a shield

 

Compiled by Edmund M. B. King

St. Albans 2023

                       

Sources

Ball, Douglas. Victorian publishers’ bindings. London, Library Association, 1985. Appendix E, Nineteenth Century Edition Binders’ Signatures.

Collins, John. Particular bindings, mostly 19^th century, mostly signed, by some 600 different binders, from 185 locations, mostly London… Catalogue 14 of George Baytun Bath, George Baytun, [2006]. [Sale Catalogue.] 

de Beaumont, Robin. Binders’ Tickets in the Robin de Beaumont Collection of 1860’s Illustrators Books. British Museum Prints & Drawings. Based on the listings in Douglas Ball Victorian Publishers’ Bindings, The Library Association 1985, Appendix E. [Unpublished List.

King, Edmund M.B.  Victorian decorated trade bindings 1830-1880. London: The British Library, 2003. List of Bookbinders’ Tickets, pp. 267-270.

Mitchell, William Smith. Bookbinder’s Tickets. In: The Durham University Journal vol. XLVI. No.1. (New Series. Vol. XV. No. 1) December 1953.

Packer, Maurice. Bookbinders of Victorian London. London: British Library, 1991.

Ramsden, Charles. Bookbinders of the United Kingdom (outside London) 1780-1840. London: B. T. Batsford, 1954 (reprinted 1987). 

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Spawn, William and Kinsella, Thomas E. Ticketed Bookbindings from Nineteenth-Century Britain. Bryn Mawr [Pennsylvania]: Bryn Mawr College Library; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1999.