Latest posts tagged with #endpapers on Bluesky
The inside covers for What’s That Spooky Sound? 😊
Fun to include the pygmy shrew by herself, actual size.
They are our teeniest native mammal! 💚
Published by @theobrienpress.bsky.social on April 2nd 😊
#picturebookillustration #picturebook #endpapers #illustration
First real #endpapers - thanks to notes I took on how to incorporate them while binding a book while talking to my most valuable resource: the brilliant collage artist Mark Wagner
The whole book is stunning…wonderful #UnderTheDustJacket (flying Eye don’t often do this) and beautiful #Endpapers
The book Emily Brontë in its original tan cloth publishers binding, stamped in black and lettered in black and gold.
Tan and white decorated endpapers
Title page of Emily Brontë.
List of titles of other already published volumes in the Famous Women series alongside their authors.
Famous women writing about other famous women!
Mary Robinson writes about Emily Brontë for a series titled Famous Women.
This copy is still in original publishers binding! #PublishersBindingThursday
Catalog record: https://bit.ly/bronte-robinson-catalog
#Endpapers
Qur'an of Ibrahim Sultan. dated 830 AH/1427 CE.
#design #bookarts #830s #metmuseum #Islamicart #endpapers
This 1924 #book contains stories from #NovaScotia #history. Minor pencil marks. #Map #endpapers. $20. #Booksky #asis #LocalHistory #SocialHistory #ships #pirates #oldbooks
Does your #Valentine love #PrettyBooks? We have this #scarce 1840 #TreeCalf binding of #Disraeli 's #MiscellaniesofLiterature! Five #RaisedBands. #Marbled #endpapers and edges. $300. www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/4051... #Booksky #gift #literature #oldbooks #leather #gilt #ValentinesDay
Mahlon Blaine, 1927. Endpapers for Hanns Heinz Ewers's “The Sorcerer's Apprentice.”
#illustration #endpapers #MahlonBlaine #1920s
Even the #endpapers are beautiful on this 1921 #book of #BlissCarman 's #poetry! It would make a lovely #gift! #Carman was born in #Fredericton, and was #CharlesGDRoberts ' cousin. $25. #Booksky #poems #NewBrunswick #CanLit #prettybooks #oldbooks
OFFICIUM BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS 1752 FINE BINDING Brocade BOOK of HOURS Prayer
#books #antiquarian #18thcentury #finebinding #bookofhours #prayers #Christian #Catholic #endpapers #brocade #engravings #Venice #bookauction bit.ly/3JJqiGF
OFFICIUM BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS 1752 FINE BINDING Brocade BOOK of HOURS Prayer
#books #antiquarian #18thcentury #finebinding #bookofhours #prayers #Christian #Catholic #endpapers #brocade #engravings #Venice
#bookauction
bit.ly/3JJqiGF
Lovely brocade endpapers in this 1752 Book of Hours
The only example of this paper we can find is in the Olga Hirsch collection of decorative papers in the British Library
#finebinding #bookofhours #endpapers #brocade #engravings #Venice #bookauction bit.ly/3JJqiGF
OFFICIUM BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS 1752 FINE BINDING Brocade BOOK of HOURS Prayer
#books #antiquarian #18thcentury #finebinding #bookofhours #prayers #Christian #Catholic #endpapers #brocade #engravings #Venice
#bookauction
bit.ly/3JJqiGF
Decorated endpapers, green large and small stars against white paper background.
Fontispiece and title page, with signature visible at top right of title page and handwritten notes underneath illustrated frontispiece of bronze coin of Fluvius Ursinus surrounded by various figures, animals, and cherubs.
Seeing stars?🌟We are in these #endpapers!
Sometimes smallest details make books beautiful.
#Marginalia visible under #frontispiece of this copy of Horace, Quinti Horatii Flacci Carmina: Nitori Suo Restituta, Lutetiae Parisiorum, 1746.
https://bit.ly/quinti-horatii-catalog
#RareBooks #PrettyPaper
A photograph of an eighteenth-century marbled paper with swirls of blue, yellow, pink and white.
Some lovely twirls and swirls from the 1781 edition of Pierre-Joseph's 'Histoire des insectes nuisibles à l'homme, aux bestiaux, à l'agriculture et au jardinage' (Paris, 1781). #MarbledMonday #MarbledPaper #SpecialCollections #BlueSkyBooks #Endpapers
Close-up of the white heart amidst the marbling.
View of the front cover and decorated binding.
View of comb pattern marbled endpapers in red, blue, white, and green.
View of the spines of all 4 volumes standing together.
Tiny heart💕 in comb pattern #marbled #endpapers, in vol 4 of set. All 4: red morocco binding, heavily tooled, decorated in gold.
L. Annæi Senecæ philosophi opera omnia, Elsevier, 1649.
https://bit.ly/seneca-1649-catalog
#MarbledMonday #MarbledPaper #MarbledEndpapers #FineBindings #RareBooks
