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The floral motif of this printed-pattern bookcloth nearly obscures the blind and gilt stamping on the front cover of our copy of A Description of the City of New York, published in 1847.

Decorated bookcloth, including printed-pattern and ribbon-embossed cloth, peaked in popularity in the late 1830s into the 1840s. The trend became less popular beginning in the 1850s, when heavy gilt-stamped designs on ungrained bookcloth dominated the market.

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Holley, O. L. 1847, A description of the city of New York New York : J. Disturnell 1847. 10 cm x 15 cm x 1 cm

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A rare and beautiful printed pattern bookcloth on this #PublishersBindingThursday 

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1847, The history of Charles the Twelfth, king of Sweden.   New York : Leavitt, trow & Co., 1847. 10 cm x 17 cm x 2.5 cm

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Tangerine Dream

For #PublishersBindingThursday, we present this tangerine-colored binding for Marie Louise Hankins’ 1861 edition of Women of New York. The narrative contains thirty-three caricatures of contemporary women, all of whom Hankins maintains she drew from real life. 

We love the striking color of this bookcloth, and the lovely blind-stamped portrait on the cover repeated in gilt on the spine. 

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Hankins, Marie Louise. 1861, Women of New York. New York : Marie Louise Hankins & Co. 1861. 12 cm x 19 cm x 3 cm