Daily Archives: April 16, 2025

by Kathy Roberts I collected nineteenth-century decorated cloth bookbindings, or publishers trade bindings, for 25 years. All were octavo size or slightly smaller. In any case, they were full-sized books. My collection spanned early 1830s calendered cloth, 1840s striped, printed, and ribbon-embossed cloth, the brilliant reds and blues of the […]