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This week's #BindingAppreciationPost is brought to you by these floral printed paste papers. 

Also, #36DaysuntilSpring! 

Ein christlicher send-brief, an geistliche personen geschrieben. Allentown: Gedruckt fur die Verleger von A. und W. Blumer, 1835.

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We've still got Shakespeare on the mind, so decided to highlight the Wayward Sisters again, this time #PublishersBindingThursday style. 

This is volume 6 of a 15 volume set of  the works of Shakespeare, each volume with a different gold-stamped decoration to match the contents. If you look very closely, you can see the name of the die-cutter, [John] Feely, engraved into this stamp, in the folds of fabric just under the Witches' fingers.

The plays and poems of Shakespeare. Edited by A.J. Valpy. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842.   

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These shell marbled endpapers and matching fore edge are helping us celebrate #EndoftheWeekEndpapers *and* #ForeEdgeFriday! TGIF indeed!

James Thompson. The seasons; with the Castle of indolence. New York: W.B. Gilley, 1812.

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To add that little something extra, the binder of this pocket-sized gift book attached colored paper onlays to the upper cover, placed just right so as to make the flowers pop. If you look closely, you can see the outlines of the cut paper pieces underneath the gilt decoration.  

Emma C. Embury. Love’s token flowers.  New York: J.C. Riker, 1848.

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We have a #BindingAppreciationPost to share this Thursday because it's grey and rainy here in Philadelphia and this stained leather beauty is making us think of blue skies, blue oceans, and sandy beaches. #135daysuntilSummer 

The Works of Cornelius Tacitus. In Six Volumes. Philadelphia: Printed for H.C. Carey & I. Lea, et al., 1822.

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These two were just begging to be featured for #PublishersBindingThursday and really, who can say no to that face! Either of those faces!

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It’s #PublishersBindingThursday, which means it’s almost Friday! If you’re still making plans for the long weekend, we have just the book for you. Impromptu charades, anyone? William B. Dick. What shall we do to-night? or, Social amusements for evening parties. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1873.

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We hear plaid is *in* this season, and we’re ready for it. 

Kate Douglas Wiggin. Penelope's progress, being such extracts from the commonplace book of Penelope Hamilton as relate to her experiences in Scotland. Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1898.

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Our copy of Lydia Howard Sigourney’s The Weeping Willow (Hartford, 1847) is bound in a striped cloth that nearly obscures the blind-blocked decorative border on the cover. #PublishersBindingThursday

Sigourney, L. H. Hartford : Henry H. Parsons. 1847.    

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This beautiful gold and blind stamped cloth binding illustrated with our fine feathered friends gives advice on a particular flight of fancy, that of American birds.  #feathursday #PublishersBindingThursday

Browne, D. J. The American bird fancier ... . New York : C. M. Saxton, 1851.

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“I stood and watched by the window the noiseless work of the sky, And the sudden flurries of snow-birds, like brown leaves whirling by.” 

This verse from The First Snow-Fall by James Russell Lowell and published in our copy of Winter Poems recalls Autumn as the season changes to Winter, a perfect verse for the Winter solstice and the first day of the season. 

Winter Poems by Favorite American Poets. Boston : Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871.     

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The binding on our copy of The Cottage Bee Keeper (New York, 1851) truly is the bee’s knees! #PublishersBindingThursday

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The cottage bee keeper. Filleul, Philip Valpy Mourant. New York : C. M. Saxton, Agricultural Book Publisher. 1851. 19 cm x 12 cm x 2 cm.    

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Our copy of H.C. Bunner’s Short Sixes (New York, 1891) features this unusual, and perhaps unique, two-cloth binding. We hope this inspires others to look through their collections, we would love to see similar bindings if they’re out there!  

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Short Sixes; Stories to be Read While the Candle Burns. Bunner, H. C. New York : Keppler & Schwarzmann 1891 18 cm x 13.5 cm x 2 cm

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It’s a #PublishersBindingThursday double feature! Both of our copies of Willis’ Sacred Poems (New York, 1847) are bound in a green and black printed-pattern cloth. We can’t decide which is our favorite. Can you?

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Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867. Sacred poems. / By N.P. Willis.. New-York: : Published by Clark & Austin., MDCCCXLVII. [1847] 126 p. :  12 cm

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We love the subtle floral ribbon-embossed cloth on our copy of Hamilton’s Practical Catechism on Singing (New York, 1839). 

Ribbon-embossed grain got its name from its original intention: as decoration for cloth ribbons. However, the rising popularity of grained and decorated book-cloth in the 1830s and 1840s led to the production of ribbon-embossed cloth for use as a book covering.

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Hamilton, James Alexander. Hamilton's practical catechism on singing. New York : Hewitt & Jaques. 1839. 10 cm x 15 cm x 1.5 cm