This week’s binding gem is hard to miss and it is in the queue to be recatalogued fully in the next few weeks, but I… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 27: The biggest incunabula on our shelves
Sometimes you can tell a book by its cover. This book caught my eye as I was pulling some items from the incunabula section because… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 26: A 15th century edition of Josephus bound in near contemporary reverse sheep with a cover title inside a horn window
This week’s binding gem is the Rare Book Collection’s only recorded early (pre-1900) Swedish imprint: Archbishop Laurentius Petri’s Then Swenska Kyrkeordningen, printed in Stockholm by… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 25: the earliest Swedish book in our collection, bound in Sweden c. 1577
Thorlak’s Bible, the second edition of the Bible in Icelandic, bound in contemporary leather with beautiful clasps and endpapers I stumbled across this fascinating book… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 24
Large 17th centry Saints’ Lives bound in blind rolled pigskin with a Monastic inscription This week’s binding gem comes from one of the greatest untapped… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 23
A 16th century German book bound in 19th century British Paisley cloth This one is a bit of a mystery. As I was re-shelving some… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 22
A book fit for a countess This little gem just came off the shelf a few days ago to be fully catalogued. This is one… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 21
Books donated to St Andrews by Thomas Hollis In the 1760’s, St Andrews received a series of small but important donations from one of the… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 20
The mystery of Edward Gwynn Earlier this year the rare book community received a general call-to-arms request in regards to helping track down books owned… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 19
A gorgeous issue of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King illustrated by Gustave Doré While I was searching through the stacks last week, hot… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 18
Three 16th century portrait bindings This week’s post highlights the bindings of three 16th century books, two printed in Basel and the other printed in… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 17
Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s copy of the 1571 edition of Matthew Paris’s Flores historiarum Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948) was a fixture of St Andrews… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 16
