American Trade Bindings
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April on the high seas
Hello again from Paul and Callie, your friends at American Trade Bindings and Beyond! The beginning of spring, and this first day of this new month of April, seemed like a good time to re-introduce the blog after a long hiatus. During these uncertain and tumultuous times, when so many of us are working from… Continue reading
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Marion Peabody update!
Remember our blog post about Marion Peabody, the binding designer, whom we posted about way back in 2015? If not, go check it out! You can even see the photograph of her that we found in passport records. Anyway, we have an update thanks to the sleuthing of Linda Obora! I was sitting at my… Continue reading
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To Autumn: John Keats and Margaret Armstrong
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;” — autumn has come and, unbelievably, is nearly past. Outside it’s overcast with not much of autumn’s characteristic crispness, and only a few leaves remain on the trees. But inside we have a crisp binding to share: The Poetical Works of John Keats,… Continue reading
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New “Finds” (A guest post by Mark Schumacher)
In the last few weeks, we have come across several new illustrators and artists, most of them women, who also contributed to the world of binding design. Most of the books involved are volumes aimed at children—readers, introductions to geography, and tomes of fairy tales or familiar legends, like Robin Hood. Although these designs may… Continue reading
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Kenny's Choice: March Binding of the Month Club
Welcome to the March 2016 Binding of the Month Club!Did you know that the University of North Carolina Greensboro digital projects website is not the only place to view our collection of American trade bindings? If you haven’t discovered them yet, let me encourage you to visit the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) (1).… Continue reading
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Marion Louise Peabody
I always get excited when I discover something new–well, new to me anyway. I was looking around for information on Marion L. Peabody a few months back. We have several books designed by her in our collection, which you can view here. She was a very talented artist who knew how to provoke a response… Continue reading
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Going out
We have a few beautiful bindings that came in over the last few weeks. After cataloging they’re making their way to their future home in Special Collections. We can identify binding designers for some of them, and some, as usual, are still a mystery. This copy of A Rose of a Hundred Leaves by Amelia… Continue reading
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The flowers that bloom in the spring …
Tra la! I was taking a walk around campus the other day, idly kicking up grass toupees, when I passed a small enclosed garden with some beautiful blooms. I can tell a pansy from a pie plate, but beyond that I’m fairly hopeless at plant identification. Not so with many binding designers. Among them the best… Continue reading
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Publisher's series bindings
These beauties are getting cataloged today! As you can see from the image, they have the same binding designs just with different colors and different images in the frames. I love when bindings like these come across my desk for a couple of reasons. (1) Creating the binding description is less time consuming because you… Continue reading
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