This week’s binding post is a heavy-weight from the Alchemy Collection. It is found on the 1561 Officina Frobeniana printing of Georg Agricola’s De re metallica libri XII. This book is the second edition of Agricola’s…
As we begin to round out our last 10 binding posts, it’s time to start getting out the treasures! This week’s binding feature is one of the highlights of our Oriental Manuscript collection: ms19(o), a richly…
Earlier this week, our Muniments Archivist, Rachel Hart, was browsing our early print collections for images of Easter for another publication. You can imagine my excitement when I received a phone call saying that…
This week’s binding feature is one of four incunabula held in the George Hay Forbes Collection. This week, as I was wrapping up cataloguing of all the known incunabula from the smaller collections held in the…
We return this week back to the work of book designer John Leighton (featured in week 33). I don’t normally like to cover the same ground twice, but this volume was too beautiful to pass up. This week’s post is given…
This week’s binding posts features one of the classic hallmarks of 18th century Scottish bookbinding: the wheel pattern. The wheel pattern was the Scottish answer to the very popular 17th century Italian fan-style…
This week’s binding highlight is a small, precious thing found by our reading room staff whilst doing shelf-checking in the Reserve Collection. It is the 1854 printing (5th edition) of Jean-Baptiste (or Abbé)…
This week’s binding feature is indeed a bit of a Frankenstein. I came across this item while working through the large folio incunabula shelves and was caught a bit off-guard. TypGU.A78ZJ is the late 15th century…
Embroidered bindings are no stranger to this binding thread, however, this week’s item has a very interesting connection to one of the most artistically influential families of England in the 19th century. This week’s…
This week’s binding post is a bit of a mystery and is a perfect candidate for some further research. Recently recatalogued incunabula TypFP.A95GG is the 1495 Paris printing of Pope Gregory I’s Moralia, sive Expositio…