Victorian publisher's bookbindings

Monday, 27 January 2014

Cowper's Poetical Works. A typical trade binding of the 1870s.

William Cowper's Poetical Works was immensely popular in Victorian times with many hundreds of editions being published. The British...

Tuesday, 21 January 2014

UK blocking of cloth covers - more gilt decoration by the 1840s

George Tattersall's Sporting architecture was p ublished Sept. 29th 1841 by R. Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent ...

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Edmund M B King: My career at the British Library was from 1975 to 2012. I was head of the BL Newspaper Collections from 1999 to 2012. My bibliography on Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings was published in 2003. A review of it is published in the Victorian web: http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/books/king/kinsella.html All the entries in my 2003 book have been entrered into the BL bookbindings database: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/KeywordSelection.aspx I have catalogued the bindings of the books in the De Beaumont collection in the British Museum (some 400 books and magazines). https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx Many Pinterest Boards at: . https://www.pinterest.co.uk/edmundking/

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