Judging a Book by Its Cover: Gold-Stamped Publishers' Bindings of the 19th Century

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Hamerton
Etching & Etchers
London: Macmillan & Co., 1868
Catalog Record (CLIO)

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Völsunga Saga
London: F. S. Ellis, 1870


Catalog Record (CLIO)

Cover design by Philip Webb (1831-1915), architect and friend of William Morris

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Swinburne
Songs Before Sunrise
London: F. S. Ellis, 1871



Cover design by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

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Cable
The Grandissimes
New York: Scribner's, 1880

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Rossetti
Ballads and Sonnets
London: Ellis and White, 1881




Cover design by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

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Stevens
Who Spoils Our New English Books
London: Henry Newton Stevens, 1884


Catalog Record (CLIO)

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Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands, from 1862 to 1882.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1884

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Gilder
The New Day
Fourth Edition
New York: The Century Co., c1887