{"id":3069,"date":"2008-04-29T01:35:05","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T00:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/04\/29\/old-book-covers\/"},"modified":"2008-04-29T18:23:19","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T17:23:19","slug":"old-book-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/04\/29\/old-book-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Old book covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromoldbooks.org\/SymmsIlluminating\/pages\/0000-cover\/0000-cover-q50-632x878.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/illuminated.jpg\" alt=\"illuminated.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times by WR Symms (1860). <\/em><\/p>\n<p>From the days when blocking was an art. One of a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromoldbooks.org\/Search\/?kw=book%20covers\" target=\"_blank\">lavish board designs<\/a> which can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromoldbooks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fromoldbooks.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-book-covers-archive\/\">The book covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/11\/03\/decorated-russian-book-covers\/\">Decorated Russian book covers<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/04\/21\/the-hetzel-editions-of-jules-verne\/\">The Hetzel editions of Jules Verne<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 } \u2022 The book covers archive Previously on { feuilleton } \u2022 Decorated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/04\/29\/old-book-covers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Old book covers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,4],"tags":[715],"class_list":["post-3069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design","tag-jules-verne"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-Nv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}