University of St Andrews Prize Books
This blog was first issued as an article in St Andrews in Focus. Students at the University of St Andrews in the 19th century aspired… Read More »University of St Andrews Prize Books
book bindings
Get your boards on: A new method of board re-attachment for tight-back bindings
A tour around the rare books in the Library’s Special Collections reveals many volumes with bands of cotton tape tied around them. The white tying… Read More »Get your boards on: A new method of board re-attachment for tight-back bindings
A trip to the book doctor for a broken spine
A copy of The Whole Booke of Psalmes in Prose and Meeter, printed in Edinburgh by Andro Hart in 1617 was presented to Special Collections… Read More »A trip to the book doctor for a broken spine
Victorian Cloth Bindings: Introduction
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