book covers
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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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A Christmas Wish: Mammoth Cheese on the Hearthstone
Once again Christmas has crept up on us. We’re through the solstice turn and are in the final stretch of 2017. However, I’m devastated to say that I’ve never heard that Santa delivers binding images, even to the best behaved, which prompted this bitter image. Cover by Margaret Armstrong To celebrate the holiday season appropriately,… Continue reading
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Happy Holidays from the Decorative Designers
It’s only a few days until Christmas and, as always at this time of year, our thoughts are turning to seasonal and wintry topics: decorating the house, seeing family, vacation, finding the perfect gift for that strange uncle, being stranded on a train by a blizzard … To celebrate the season, our last post of… 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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Babyhood…it's not for the faint of heart
Sometimes, book covers can just be creepy. A case in point is this book, “Babyhood: Rhymes and Stories, Pictures and Silhouettes for Our Little Ones,” which recently came across my desk. In my opinion, it has a cover that just has to be shared. The artist(s) who prepared the cover is currently unknown to us.… Continue reading
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