Apr 10, 2025
From our stacks: Endpaper detail from Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari, 1641-1737. By Herbert K. Goodkind. Larchmont, NY: Published by the author, 1972.
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From our stacks: Endpaper detail from Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari, 1641-1737. By Herbert K. Goodkind. Larchmont, NY: Published by the author, 1972.
Two more lovely examples of marbled paper on books.
Green from: The Southern review, v. 10, Jan.-Apr. 1872
AP2 .S855
Red and blue from: Appletons' journal of literature, science and art, v. 2, 1869.
AP2 .A58
Publishers’ Binding Thursday
I found this publishers’ binding while browsing the stacks on the hunt for a good one. My eye was drawn to the bright green bookcloth and then I saw the nice font and sweet little biplane on the cover. Once I looked inside, I noticed the bright, orange-red endpapers and the illustrations that show so much action and movement, one of which has a caption that starts “Listen, big boy...”
The book is Doomed Demons by Eustace L. Adams (1981-1963), an American author best known for writing aviation adventure stories for boys. Doomed Demons was published in 1935 by Grosset & Dunlap in New York and features a story about WWI fighter pilots. The illustrations were done by J. Clemens Gretter (1904-1988), an artist and illustrator from Indiana who also worked as a cartoonist for comic books and signed much of his work “Clem Gretta” or simply “Gretta.”
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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager
Paper Marbling Decorations
Sharing examples of paper marbling from covers and endpapers of some volumes in Special Collections in celebration of the end of another week!
Paper marbling began over a millennia ago in East Asia, and then migrated through the Islamic world to reach and become popular among European book makers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Made by floating pigments on an aqueous solution and then lifting the colors off the vat using a sheet of paper, each marbled leaf is unique.
A bit of the possible variety can be seen here - from the subtle to the gold-flecked, to the technicolor (and the one that looks like a petri dish...).
I've been working on facsimile pages lately and so I thought #throwback photos of facsimile end-sheets, paste-downs, and title pages would be fun to post and reminisce about. Cosmetically aging period appropriate paper to match old water stains and other random spills or bug marks found in old books is quite fun!👌🏼 (Swipe 👉🏼 👈🏼 for more.) #tbt #eidolonhouse #titlepage #endsheets #rarebooks #booklife #oldbooks #igbooks
End-of-Week-End-Sheets brought to you by: Obras Completas by Wenceslao Fernández-Flórez, 1947
happy weekend everybody!
Book art is just stunning sometimes.
From: Park, Mungo, 1771-1806. The life and travels of Mungo Park. Edinburgh : W.P. Nimmo ; Hay & Mitchell, 1896.
DT356.P3 1896
From: Burnaby, Andrew, 1732-1812. Travels through the middle settlements in North-America, in the years 1759 and 1760. London : Printed for T. Payne, at the Mews-Gate, 1775
E162 .B96 1775