Last week we considered grains as a form of decoration, whereby the natural grain of the cloth was disguised with a design. Almost simultaneously with… Read More »Victorian cloth bindings, week 3: blocking in gold, blind, black, and silver
The idea of using cotton cloth as a covering for books probably originated with the London publisher William Pickering, whilst the binder Archibald Leighton solved… Read More »Victorian cloth bindings, week 2: grains
This new mini-series of blog posts will examine British cloth bindings during the Victorian era, that is, from the 1830s until the turn of the… Read More »Victorian Cloth Bindings: Introduction
