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The Old Farmer's Almanack, Robert Bailey Thomas, Special Collections, Fleet Library
The Old Farmer's Almanack, Robert Bailey Thomas, Special Collections, Fleet Library
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48 pages : illustrations. "Sold by the booksellers and traders throughout New England." At head of title: Number Seventy-Eight. This copy has cover wrappers printed with advertisements for businesses in New Bedford, Mass. Inside wrapper has publisher info: New Bedford: S. Hutchinson. This copy has a hole punched in the upper left hand corner of the cover, looped with a piece of string.
Draining For Profit And Draining For Health, Geroge Edwin Waring, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Draining For Profit And Draining For Health, Geroge Edwin Waring, Special Collections, Fleet Library
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252 pages : illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. New and revised edition. Includes index. First edition published: New York: O. Judd & Co., 1867. Decorated cloth binding, in brown cloth. Front and back cover boards have a band of decorative embossing at the top and at the bottom. At the center of the front cover board is a gold stamped motif of a figure digging a drainage ditch. To his side are additional tools and some drainage tiles. The image is signed Feely, lower right. Spine has some decorative …
The Origin And Progress Of The Art Of Writing : A Connected Narrative Of The Development Of The Art In Its Primeval Phases In Egypt, China, And Mexico ... And Its Subsequent Progress To The Present Day / By Henry Noel Humphreys ; Illustrated By A Number Of Specimens Of The Writing Of All Ages And A Series Of Facsimiles From Autograph Letters From The Fifteenth To The Nineteenth Century., Henry Noel Humphreys, Special Collections, Fleet Library
The Origin And Progress Of The Art Of Writing : A Connected Narrative Of The Development Of The Art In Its Primeval Phases In Egypt, China, And Mexico ... And Its Subsequent Progress To The Present Day / By Henry Noel Humphreys ; Illustrated By A Number Of Specimens Of The Writing Of All Ages And A Series Of Facsimiles From Autograph Letters From The Fifteenth To The Nineteenth Century., Henry Noel Humphreys, Special Collections, Fleet Library
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178 pages, 28 leaves of plates : facsimiles (some color). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Spine title: History of writing. All color plates are signed: "H.N. Humphreys, Lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to The Queen." Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Gilt edges. Cover is black papier mache with red backing paper. The design is the same on both covers. Binding design by Henry Noel Humphreys. Library copy is missing spine and is disbound. "The English firm Jackson & Sons held the patent for the papier-mâché bindings of the mid-1840s to 1860s …
The Preacher, Owen Jones, Special Collections, Fleet Library
The Preacher, Owen Jones, Special Collections, Fleet Library
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[36] pages : color illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Unusual cover: Ornate wooden binding produced with a heat-stamping machine by Remnant & Edmond. Title "carved" into wooden cover. Ornamental stamping on inside border. Black Morocco spine over ebonized wood boards; front cover with branch borders with titling 'vanity / of vanities / saith the / preacher all / is vanity', and entwined floral decorations framing central titling. Rear cover repeating front, except additional floral decorations replacing central titling. Spine with blind-stamped floral decorations and lettering. Black coated endpapers; turn-ins …
The Miracles Of Our Lord, Henry Noel Humphreys, Special Collections, Fleet Library
The Miracles Of Our Lord, Henry Noel Humphreys, Special Collections, Fleet Library
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[1], 31, iv pages : color illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Ornamental borders, and illustrations, in color. "Remarks of the illuminator. Descriptive index of the miracles" signed: H.N.H. [i.e. Henry Noel Humphreys] "The title-page contains a figure of the Saviour .. in a niche, ornamented in a style corresponding with the rest of the volume."--page iii. "It has been sought to render the [papier mâché] cover also appropriate, by enriching it with medallions representing the principal miracles; it has been partly taken from a .. cover in carved ivory, …
Gray's Elegy, Thomas Gray, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Gray's Elegy, Thomas Gray, Special Collections, Fleet Library
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38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Title page and all interior pages colorfully decorated to resemble an illuminated manuscript. Binder's paper label mounted inside back cover. Gilt edges, inside cover edges with decorative gold tooling. Although the Elegy was often honored with illumination in Victorian Britain, Owen Jones's version contains a number of innovations. It was the first book issued in Leake's patented relievo binding (Ball, Catalogue, no. 46d), the first example of a title page with names of both the London and New York …
Book Of Trees, Mahlon Day, Alexander Anderson, Joseph W. Morse, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Book Of Trees, Mahlon Day, Alexander Anderson, Joseph W. Morse, Special Collections, Fleet Library
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22 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm. "First and last pages blank; pasted to printed wrapper. Wood-engraved illustrations signed by Alexander Anderson and J.W. Morse. Contents: The saw mill -- The olive tree -- The evergreen cypress -- The cedar of Lebanon -- Stump and knees of a cypress tree -- Brazil wood -- The talipot tree. Note: ""Mahlon Day, 374 Pearl Street. "Engraved illustrations on cover and title page. Engraved frontispiece and endpiece on pages [2] & [3] of wrapper. "School books, &c.""--Publisher's catalog, page [4] of wrapper. Cover has border with five different publisher's decorations. Text is hand …