Judging Books By Their Covers! | Bite Sized Book History

Publisher's cloth bindings are brightly-colored bookshelf candy! It took a fair amount of technological and aesthetic advancement to get to this point... and some cloth bindings are FAR more dangerous than you would expect. Learn about the history of these beautiful bindings in this episode!

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Further reading:
https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/beaut...
http://wiki.winterthur.org/wiki/Poiso...
https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/clo...
https://historyofinformation.com/deta...
https://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/s...
https://cdm.bostonathenaeum.org/digit...
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/03/24/...

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