Tag: books

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vculibraries:

A feast for the eyes! 

We hope you’ll enjoy browsing our new online album of fabulous nineteenth-century publishers’ bindings. From Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library. 

Our early modern books are usually our “showstoppers,” but this picture is a nice reminder that books manufactured during the machine-press period shouldn’t be overlooked!

(Also, Thorns in the Flesh?!?!? I am so intrigued.)