Jul 5, 2019
To celebrate #brocadepaper week, we are sharing some of the more lavish #giltypleasures from our collections. These glittering green and gold brocade endpapers adorn the inside of a manuscript Italian libretto dedicated to and bound for Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset. Decorated papers similar to these can often be found as endpapers on fine bindings, but were also sometimes used as temporary wrappers on more ephemeral volumes, such as these pocket almanacs for the year 1803.
--Sophia Dahab, Curatorial and Reading Room Librarian.
Francesco Vanneschi. Anibale [sic] in Capua. [London, England, ca. 1754]
Poor Will's pocket almanack, for the year 1803. Philadelphia [Pa.] [1802]