My year-long experiment in weekly posting a new binding description finally came to an end last week with the beautiful Wardlaw Bible. This year’s worth… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: reflections and index
Well, we’ve saved the best for last. The final post of this year-long series of fantastic bindings has been reserved for what is probably the… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 52: an embroidered Bible presented by Charles I, on behalf of Queen Anne, to Sir Harry Wardlaw of Pitreavie
I’ve selected one of the true beauties of our collections for the second-to-last binding post of this series. It is no surprise that many of… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 51: a beautiful 19th century hand-painted and lacquered Qur’an
This week’s binding feature focusses on an item from a collection that has not yet been discussed here: the Photographic Collection. St Andrews University Library… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 50: a 19th century deluxe photographic album
With the last three weeks of this binding series already planned to jam-packed with historic “wow”-pieces, I decided to go for something a bit more… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 49: a 19th century German illustrated cover
Now, I’ve seen a fair number of books with gauffered edges in my time, however this one takes the cake. This week’s binding post was… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 48: 19th century Pictish gauffered edges …
Earlier this week, the Special Collections department shut its doors for a collection day where all staff focused on one particular subject area and began… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 47: a presentation binding from Louis XIV and Antonio Barberini, Archbishop of Rheims
This week’s binding post is taking a slightly different turn: instead of focusing on one book, we’re looking at a collection of over 100. In,… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 46: an armorial stamp to remember an Earl by
This register of evidences and privileges of the University of St Andrews (Registrum evidentiarum et privilegiorum universitatis Sancti Andree) contains transcripts or copies of key… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 45: the oldest institutional binding in St Andrews, re-used
This week’s binding post is one of the true treasures of the Rare Books collection here at St Andrews: the first edition of the Ostrog… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 44: contemporary binding of the Ostrog Bible (1581)
This week’s binding post is a heavy-weight from the Alchemy Collection. It is found on the 1561 Officina Frobeniana printing of Georg Agricola’s De re… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 43: a 16th century metallurgy bound by a 19th century professor
As we begin to round out our last 10 binding posts, it’s time to start getting out the treasures! This week’s binding feature is one… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 42: 15th century Qur’an bound in contemporary gold-stamped goatskin
