vintage book covers & stuff

1690s book with filigree silver binding - National Library of Sweden This binding is an exquisite example of Danish filigree technique from the 1690s.It belongs to the National Library’s Huseby Collection and was once owned by Karren Mogensdotter Skoug. Her name and the year 1692 are engraved on the inside of the clasps. -(x)

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POEMS by John Keats (London: George Bell, 1905) Art binding by A.&D. McGregor.

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Demonology and witchcraft by Walter Scott, 1830

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Embroidered Book Covers, 15th-17th centuries

From 1849

German school, An Open book, early 16th century

Female Saint Holding a Book (detail) by Amico Aspertini

silver book cover

Published by George Allen 1899

"There are approximately 100 “black books” (“Svarteboker“) in Norway dating between 1650 and 1850, but the paper in Vinjeboka is from 1480 and the text no later than 1520. It was found under the floorboards in Vinje Stave Church in 1796. The Vinje book is also unique in that it documents religiosity and mentality from before the Reformation in Norway. The content includes herbal medicine recipes and medical advice for common aliments of the time such as Jaundice. Also present is “the pentacle of Solomon the King” and numerous prayers and orations in Latin, all of which are heavily Catholic." [x]

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