American Decorated Publishers Bindings
This collection features photographs of Watson Library's American trade bindings published between 1804 and 1930. Our ever-growing study collection includes early nineteenth-century paper bindings and color stamped cloth covers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Major art movements of the period are represented, including Aesthetic, Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco. Also featured are major and lesser-known artists, technical approaches, and binding variants.
Among the prominent artist/designers included in the collection are Edwin Austin Abbey, Margaret Armstrong, Thomas Watson Ball, Decorative Designers, Frank Hazenplug, Rockwell Kent, Alice C. Morse, Bertha Stuart, Elihu Vedder, and Sarah Wyman Whitman.
Read more about Watson Library's collection of American publishers bindings in the following posts from our blog, In Circulation:
- American Bound: Watson's Rare Trade Bindings, Part I
- American Bound: Watson's Rare Trade Bindings, Part II
- Artists of the Book: Late 19th- to Early 20th-Century Publishers' Bindings
At top: Common sense in the household : a manual of practical housewifery, 1896.