A resource to identify the monograms and work of artists who designed the covers of decorated cloth publishers bindings from 1890-1920. Project Website for A Database of Designers One of my favorite types of books I’ve worked with in my car…
A resource to identify the monograms and work of artists who designed the covers of decorated cloth publishers bindings from 1890-1920. I love using jigs whenever possible, especially when it comes to measuring things for housings. So pleas…
I love using jigs whenever possible, especially when it comes to measuring things for housings. So please meet the “Box-O-Matic” measuring jig, which I created from the bottom half of a 20 x 16 archival box and colored pencils. I invented t…
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“Saints Benedict and Apollonia” and “Saints Paul and Frediano” both by Filippino Lippi, c. 1483. Tempera glazed with oil on panel. In the collection of the Norton Simon Museum. Photographed in November 2016. “Saints Benedict and Apollonia”
Saint Dominic and Saint Thomas Aquinas, ca. 1480, painted by (Followers of) Sano di Pietro. Tempera on wood panel. In the collection of the University of Arizona Art Museum. Saint Dominic and Saint Thomas Aquinas, ca. 1480, painted by (Foll…
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Got back on the bench for the first time in a long while. This tape residue on a beautiful handtooled binding just demanded to be picked at… On further inspection, I saw that it had a binder’s signature: “Bound by Ramage”. John Ramage was a…
It’s not everyday that I get a general collections book that’s older than the U.S.A. come across my desk. This one was in a tacky modern binding, both ugly and completely unsympathetic to the original binding structure it probably once had.…
Some scenes from the move of our archives and special collections: empty shelves contrasted with full book trays on their way to offsite storage. My library will be undergoing a massive renovation early this coming year, and I am the one ma…
Apparently our first university archivist/historian was a big fan of lamination. This just one of a couple hundred volumes containing some of our earliest university records and history that were meticulously laminated. I cannot accurately