#printedpatterncloth

Yesterday we shared a plate with images of mountains and volcanoes from a recent acquisition. Today we’re sharing its front cover for #PublishersBindingThursday! 

The striped printed pattern bookcloth nearly obscures the blind-stamped decoration on our copy of Diagrams of Geology, History, and Physcial Geography (London, c1850).

Our copy of Lydia Howard Sigourney’s The Weeping Willow (Hartford, 1847) is bound in a striped cloth that nearly obscures the blind-blocked decorative border on the cover. #PublishersBindingThursday

We’re joining @rutgers_scua and @rarebkcat for the July #JoyofGLAM challenge! We will be posting joy-inspiring images from our collection each Wednesday for the rest of the month.

It’s a #PublishersBindingThursday double feature! Both of our copies of Willis’ Sacred Poems (New York, 1847) are bound in a green and black printed-pattern cloth. We can’t decide which is our favorite. Can you?

Browse the Library Company’s database of 19th-Century Cloth Bindings to see more bindings in our collection

The floral motif of this printed-pattern bookcloth nearly obscures the blind and gilt stamping on the front cover of our copy of A Description of the City of New York, published in 1847.

Decorated bookcloth, including printed-pattern and ribbon-embossed cloth, peaked in popularity in the late 1830s into the 1840s. The trend became less popular beginning in the 1850s, when heavy gilt-stamped designs on ungrained bookcloth dominated the market.

Browse the Library Company’s database of 19th-Century Cloth Bindings to see more!