Some of the most interesting books ever printed are sitting on the shelves of university libraries collecting dust. Every time I ride the elevator up to the seventh, or eighth or ninth floor of my university art's library to collect books for a paper (yes I still use actual books for research sometimes), I usually end up grabbing something else off the shelves.
Last Thursday, I found Women in the Bookbinding Trade, published in 1913.
I was taken with the photographs . . .
. . . And the yellowed, aged papers.
Unfortunately, someone spilled something on one of the flyleaves
I don't expect that I'll read this book cover to cover, but I've enjoyed looking at it.
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