52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 13
Fragment of a 14th century Gospel manuscript found in 16th century German binding As I was searching through the stacks at our new storage facility… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 13
Fragment of a 14th century Gospel manuscript found in 16th century German binding As I was searching through the stacks at our new storage facility… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 13
Francis Hutcheson presentation copies of Foulis Press works In 1746, the moral philosopher Francis Hutcheson was given an honorary LL.D. by the University of St… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 12
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… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 11
Rare 17th century deerskin binding Of all the different types of leathers used to bind books after the medieval period, deerskin is one of the… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 10
In 1616 Ben Jonson gathered a collection of poems, plays and other works that would be published as a collected volume of Works. Jonson worked… Read More »The mystery of Ben Jonson’s 2nd Folio
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… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 9
Robert Tullis (1775-1831) moved to Cupar in 1797 and founded the company of R. Tullis & Company, initially as a bookshop and bindery. In 1803… Read More »The Tullis Press: 19th century printing in Fife
Another early St Andrews binding, with manuscript fragments from St Andrews Cathedral Priory St Andrews’ copy of Franz Lambert’s “Exegeseos Francisci Lamberti Avenionensis, in sanctam… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 8
Original post from 29 June 2011 We were contacted by members of the Scottish media shortly following an early post on this blog on a… Read More »Update: Rare 17th century heraldic playing cards from Edinburgh
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… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 7
The new Highlight section has been created to feature our lesser-mentioned treasures and our most important recent acquisitions. Each post will be written by members… Read More »Highlight: Esther Inglis’s Octonaires, a masterpiece in miniature
Two of the earliest St Andrews bindings: The St. Leonard’s Chained Bible and a 1501 copy of Jacques Lefèvre d’Etaples’ commentary on Aristotle This week’s… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 6