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Happy #MarbledMonday!

Hope these bright decorated endpapers help you start the week off right!

Endpapers from: Encyclopaedia; or a dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1798.

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This week's #BindingAppreciationPost is brought to you by these floral printed paste papers. 

Also, #36DaysuntilSpring! 

Ein christlicher send-brief, an geistliche personen geschrieben. Allentown: Gedruckt fur die Verleger von A. und W. Blumer, 1835.

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These shell marbled endpapers and matching fore edge are helping us celebrate #EndoftheWeekEndpapers *and* #ForeEdgeFriday! TGIF indeed!

James Thompson. The seasons; with the Castle of indolence. New York: W.B. Gilley, 1812.

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On Wednesday we shared some #LibraryBookArt from our copy of Johann Heck’s Iconographic Encyclopædia of Science, Literature, and Art (New York, 1851-1852). Today we’re returning to the same copy to show off these gorgeous endpapers that are featured in all six volumes of the work. We can’t be sure, but our conservation team thinks these decorated papers may have originally been intended as wallpaper! Regardless, they make for some lovely #EndOfTheWeekEndpapers

(Also, take a look at that relic from our days as a lending library! Looks like the last time this book was checked out was in 1902, a few decades before we stopped lending books.)

Johann Georg Heck. Iconographic encyclopædia of science, literature, and art. New York: Rudolph Garrigue, [1851-52].  

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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]

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It’s time for some #EndoftheWeekEndpapers! We love how these decorated endpapers shimmer in the light. Found in our copy of Charles Hodge’s The Way of Life (Philadelphia, 1841).

Hodge, Charles. The way of life. [Philadelphia, Pa.] American Sunday-School Union, Philadelphia: No. 146 Chestnut Street. [1841?]

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It’s #MarbledMonday, and we’re flipping for these marbled edges and endpapers found on our copy of Thomas Jefferys’ The Natural and Civil History of the French Dominions in North and South America (London, 1760).

Jefferys, Thomas, -1771. The natural and civil history of the French dominions in North and South America. London [England], : Printed for Thomas Jefferys at Charing-Cross., MDCCLX. [1760] 2 v. :  maps, plans ;  38 cm (folio)

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Here’s the finished pocket accordion book. 1is the front folded with ribbon closure, 2 is inside pockets. I put the blank paper in the pockets so you can see the pockets. 3 is the out side, which when folded, the book has a paper covered board stiff back. Thanks for looking. #accordionbook #decoratedpapers #handmadebook (at Chicago metropolitan area) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHijVbrLitA/?igshid=1sfgwlfm69mbj