#decorative borders

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Publishers’ Binding Thursday

For this week���s Publishers’ Binding Thursday post we’ve got more Shakespeare! This is As You Like It: A Pleasant Comedy by William Shakespeare. This edition was published in 1900 by Dodd, Mead, & Company in New York and is “newly embellished with sundry decorations by Will H. Low.” 

Will Hicok Low (1853-1932) was an artist, muralist, and writer. He also did decorative murals and design work, providing large-scale work for places like New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel and the rotunda of the New York State Education Building. 

The binding is a green bookcloth with a gold stamped sweeping floral design. There is a flowery bit at the middle of the cover stamped in white and outlined in gold. The title is stamped in gold. 

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

[clawmarks]

Zeven met de staarten verbonden muizen - Willem Wenckebach - 1898 - via Rijksmuseum

[candy--hrts]

Golden rentry frame! reblog if using (experimental) ⟣ ┄ ⚜️

[angelic-vows]

Haii may king request bloody dark red dividers? Thank yew!

✚　 𓈒　　Bloody dark red themed dividers⠀❜⠀⠀⠀ᶻz

F2u with credit !! ⠀⠀ request has been accepted :3

I hope these are to your liking dear fairyykving ^_^

[benkeibear]

Heart fairy lights | red/pink

For custom colors just shoot me an ask!

Please reblog and credit if you use!!!

[holespoles]

Cute decorative border from a Japanese fairy tale book from the Taisho era (1912-1926). Elephants connected by nose and tail.

[lotuslate]

if i die before my time, bury me upside down

(bury me, marry me to the sky)

[nanamificatiion]

☆ revamped my rentry rsrcs a little..... ‼️‼️

[bonefin]

[solradguy]

Package illustration and SEGA Aime card stickers promoting Guilty Gear XX Λ Core Plus R offered at Japan Amusement Expo 2013. Art by Daisuke Ishiwatari. Original art scan credits lost. Upscaling and editing by solradguy.

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Typography Tuesday

Here are some border and initial designs by the eccentric English artist, designer, and occultist Austin Osman Spare for the English writer and editor J. C. Squire’s collection of short tales, The Gold Tree, printed in 1917 at the Pelican Press for Marvin Secker in London in an edition of 500 copies signed by the author. The designs were engraved in wood by William Quick who was responsible for engraving most of Spare's designs.

Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956) was an English artist and ardent occultist who developed his own personal occult philosophy and wrote a series of grimoires. As an artist Spare was influenced by artists who worked in the Art Nouveau style, such as Charles Ricketts and Aubrey Beardsley, and in the 1920s he established two short-lived art magazines, one of which, The Golden Hind, we hold a full run (1921-1924). The magazine was co-edited with Clifford Bax and published by Chapman and Hall, and each issue was signed by the editors and included an original signed print by a different artist. 

That’s a lot of signing, something of which The Gold Tree’s author J. C. Squire evidently was not a fan. In another copy of this book currently for sale on the rare book market, Squire added a comment to his signature, “I would rather write the book again than sign another 500 copies.”

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[clawmarks]

L'Ornement polychrome - Auguste Racinet - vol. 1, c.1890 - via Gallica

[angelic-vows]

Can I ask for Chess Choco cookie layout or dividers?

✚　 𓈒　　chess choco themed dividers⠀❜⠀⠀⠀ᶻz

F2u with credit !! ⠀⠀ request has been accepted :3

I hope these are to your liking dear anon ^_^

[toyastales]

I'm digging the gorgeous tile used in this sophisticated bathroom

[benkeibear]

Fuzzy lines | purple

For custom colors just shoot me an ask!

Please like and reblog if you use!!!

[stephaniesingleton]

Solitude | by Stephanie Singleton