#BoundfortheWeekend

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Happy birthday to Charlotte Brontë! The Brontë siblings liked to produce miniature magazines for Branwell's toy soldiers, which may have led Charlotte to later write "The Secret" and "Lily Hart" in this tiny script on eight small sheets of paper. Many years later, the Miniature Book Society published "The Scale of Genius," which describes these little books and is bound in a facsimile of "The Secret." As you can see from the first picture, the text is almost exactly the same size in both!

The Scale of Genius: PR4169 .H37 2019

The Secret and Lily Hart: PR4167 .S43 1833

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As we head into the weekend, we've got a fun one for you: a rebound set of John L. Stephens' "Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan" (1841). The books have been rebound with fresh leather, but the binder kept the original cover with its distinctive stamp and pasted it onto the front pastedown, almost like a doublure. It's a nice way to remember what the book used to look like before the repairs.

Rare F1432 .S83 1841

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Happy Friday! We're #BoundForTheWeekend with this swirly blue paste paper from the cover of a 1977 edition of Ourika by Claire de Durfort.

RARE PQ2235.D65 O8 1977

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We're #BoundForTheWeekend, and it's a lovely one - marbled endpapers, lacy gilt dentelles on the inner edges, and a leather treatment that almost looks like tortoiseshell. Bonus: the bookplate of Reginald Huth, a book collector and member of a banking family in early 20th-century London.

Parnaso español. Colección de poesías escogidas de los mas célebres poetas castellanos. Madrid: J. Ibarra, 1768-78. PQ6184.A2 P2 9

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The semester might start on Monday, but today we are #BoundfortheWeekend in sumptuous style. This little purple velvet bible was presented to Josephine Bonaparte Bolton of Jeff City, MO in 1851. BS185 1848 .L6 . . . . #purplevelvet #velvet #bookclasps #bookbinding #bible #fancy #foreedgefriday #provenance #bibliophile #bookstagram #booklover #rarebooks #specialcollections #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #mizzou #universityofmissouri #ellislibrary #ifttt

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We and our tiny books are so ready to finally be #BoundfortheWeekend -- they're already lining up to leave! . . . #miniaturebooks #tinybooks #cute #miniature #bookbinding #bibliophile #bookstagram #booklover #rarebooks #specialcollections #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #mizzou #universityofmissouri #ellislibrary #ifttt

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Guess what?? It's #ForeedgeFriday and we are #BoundfortheWeekend! This impressive object is our 1509 edition of Pacioli's "Divina Proportione." NC745.A2 P3 #divineproportion #graphicdesign #typography #davinci #bookclasps #bookbinding #bibliophile #bookstagram #booklover #rarebooks #specialcollections #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #mizzou #universityofmissouri #ellislibrary #ifttt

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Sometimes you just feel a little tattered when you're #boundfortheweekend. Hopefully you perk up like these books did when they shed their acidic board and got lovely new enclosures! Our Flach collection includes a large number of late 19th century legal texts, many of which are in this somewhat tragic binders' board. . . . #notape #preservation #conservation #legaltext #friday #bibliophile #bookstagram #booklover #rarebooks #specialcollections #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #mizzou #universityofmissouri #ellislibrary #ifttt

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Feeling a bit worn down in the middle of the semester? So are we, but we are #boundfortheweekend AND for spring break!⠀ ⠀ PA6611 .A2 1524 v.3⠀ ⠀ #bookguts #bookbinding #spine #springbreak #conservation #bibliophile #bookstagram #booklover #rarebooks #specialcollections #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #mizzou #universityofmissouri #ellislibrary #ifttt

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This lovely brocade book is definitely #BoundfortheWeekend -- as are we! Expect to see more of this fascinating 1736 volume of curiosities soon.⠀ ⠀ PT2542 .T65 1736⠀ ⠀ #tgif #floralfriday #textile #fabric #costume #bibliophile #bookstagram #booklover #rarebooks #specialcollections #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #mizzou #universityofmissouri #ellislibrary #ifttt