Old book covers
Apr 29, 2008
The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times by WR Symms (1860).
From the days when blocking was an art. One of a number of lavish board designs which can be found at Fromoldbooks.org.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The book covers archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Decorated Russian book covers
• The Hetzel editions of Jules Verne
2 comments or trackbacks
#1 posted by Coralie
Apr 29th, 2008
Fantastic, I am a big fan of blocking.
This website is amazing as well, so many examples of great covers
http://bindings.lib.ua.edu/index.html
#2 posted by Liam Quin
Jun 3rd, 2010
Thanks for featuring this image from my Web site.
A minor note – it’s actually Tymms rather than Symms; my fault, I made a mistake
when I first transcribed it!
Liam