Collection: Interesting & Fine Bindings

“All the things in the World are but Bawbles except Old Friends to converse with, and Old Books to Read” : William de Britaine - Humane Prudence (1700)

[Arsenic Collection] Middle Class Conspicuous Consumption : Lebon -Mosaïque Chrétien (1855)

[Arsenic Collection] Three Holy Lives To Learn From: L'Abbé Carron - Vie de Mme. de la Vallière etc (1853)

[Arsenic Collection] Pre-Revolution Morals for Napoleonic Youth : de Flesselles - Les merveilles de la création (1853)

[Arsenic Collection] Two Tales of Paris At the Beginning of Modernization: d'Isle - La Promenade aux Champs-Élysées suivie de Malice et Bonté (1854)

Mauchline Binding for the Ladies: Gift of Love and Friendship (1874)

[Arsenic Collection] Missionary Account of Ethiopia: Gobat - Journal d’un Séjour en Abyssinia, pendant les années 1830, 1831, et 1832 (1835)

Parlour Room Divination from 1880s-1950s: The Birthday Oracle (1883)

Fine Bindings for Fine French Ladies : Etrennes Spirituelles (1752)

20th century Medievalism: Dorothy Hartley - The Old Book (1930)

A Victorian Compendium in Pretty Binding : Favourite English Poems and Poets (1870)

: William HONE - Ancient Mysteries Described (1823)

Traveling the World from a French Perspective: Voyage Pittoresque - Richard Cortambert (1877)

Fitzwilliam Museum Exhibition Catalogue, Bound by Owner: Pamela Lister - Cookery Books 1641 to 1899 (1983)

"Ah, bairns, my bairns, forbear on Hallow Night To mock the folk o’ faëry and their might" : Robert Buchanan- North Coast and other Poems (1868)

18th Century Childhood from a Victorian Perspective : Sarah Tytler - Childhood A Hundred Years Ago (1877)

"Waft me some soft and cooling Breeze" : Various - The Fields and the Woodlands Depicted by Painter and Poet (1873)

Fine Binding, Fine Poetry, Fine Engravings: Tom Taylor & Birket Foster - Birket Foster’s Pictures of English Landscape (1864)

A Celebration of God, Nature, and Beautiful Book Art : Frances Ridley Havergal - Life Mosaic (1882)

Presented to Mussolini : Péleo Bacci - La ricostruzione del pergamo di Giovanni Pisano (1926)

Up the Nile (Without One Plate): W. H. Bartlett - The Nile Boat (1862)

Journeying to the Middle East in the 19th Century: William Henry Bartlett - Forty Days in the Desert (1848)