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52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 11

Two early 17th century Edinburgh bindings, possibly the work of Andro Hart and his Heirs Andro Hart (d. 1621) is best known for being the most successful and important Scottish book merchant and book importer before…

52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 9

An unrecorded James Scott of Edinburgh binding A recently catalogued volume of three of Robert Colvill’s (d. 1788) poems stood out from the tedium of commercial 18th century bindings found in the last portion of the…

52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 7

18th century fine Scottish binding with beautiful Dutch gilt papers I have recently been working through some late 18th century Edinburgh imprints, mostly bound in standard commercial calf bindings, so when TypBE.D62BB…

52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 3

TypBE.C81LM & r17 DA300.J64 – two late 17th century Scottish bindings This week’s fantastic binding is a double feature: one item that has been in our collection for a long time and another that we have just recently…