American Trade Bindings and Beyond

We are two catalogers sharing fun finds as we catalog. Mostly this will be about American Trade Bindings and the artists behind them, but we'll have a few other things sprinkled in along the way


February 2014

  • Who we are

    Paul Hessling and Callie Coward work in the cataloging department at Jackson Library at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The digitization of American publishers trade bindings at the university began in 2009, when Paul submitted a proposal to have a select number digitized. His proposal was accepted and six phases later, there are now over 3,000… Continue reading

  • Glossary

    This is where we will store some familiar and not so familiar vocabulary so our readers will be able to decode our posts if need be. Click on the word for a link to an example. Here’s a term list from ABC-CLIO that’s awesomely thorough by Joan M Reitz and another term list from Indiana University… Continue reading

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