{"id":7561,"date":"2010-08-10T02:33:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T01:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7561"},"modified":"2010-08-10T02:33:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T01:33:25","slug":"hand-bookbindings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/08\/10\/hand-bookbindings\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand bookbindings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libweb5.princeton.edu\/visual_materials\/hb\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/khayyam1.jpg\" alt=\"khayyam1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two editions of the <em>Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t<\/em> of Omar Khayyam from <a href=\"http:\/\/libweb5.princeton.edu\/visual_materials\/hb\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">a presentation of special bindings<\/a> at the Princeton University Library. The peacock design contains real jewels. In addition to these displays of lavish blocking there are some remarkable examples of <a href=\"http:\/\/libweb5.princeton.edu\/visual_materials\/hb\/cases\/edgedecoration\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">edge decoration<\/a>, something one rarely sees today even on expensive limited editions. Thanks again to <a href=\"http:\/\/chateauthombeau.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thom<\/a> for the tip!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libweb5.princeton.edu\/visual_materials\/hb\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/khayyam2.jpg\" alt=\"khayyam2.jpg\" \/><\/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\/2009\/12\/11\/ronald-balfours-rubaiyat\/\">Ronald Balfour\u2019s Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two editions of the Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t of Omar Khayyam from a presentation of special bindings at the Princeton University Library. The peacock design contains real jewels. In addition to these displays of lavish blocking there are some remarkable examples of edge decoration, something one rarely sees today even on expensive limited editions. Thanks again to Thom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/08\/10\/hand-bookbindings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hand bookbindings&#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":[1617,444,858],"class_list":["post-7561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design","tag-omar-khayyam","tag-peacocks","tag-ronald-balfour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1XX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7561","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=7561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}