Crowded 'bulletin-board' layouts
Overlapping elements
Stamping in colors
Expressive, flowing lettering
Elaborate pictorial designs with exuberant letterforms
Designs printed in gold, black and other colors
Smooth-surfaced bookcloth with diagonal ribbed and other
      unobtrusive grains and patterns
Continued use of asymmetrical designs


1) Carleton, Will.  Farm festivals.  New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1881.  Gold, blind and black stamping on yellowish brown silk grain cloth, with beveled boards.  The trend toward the design taking over the whole board is continued from the end of the last decade.

2) [Stoddard, Richard Henry].  Homes and haunts of our elder poets.  New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881.  Library of Gardner Blanchard Perry, Newport, RI.  Gold, black, red and blind stamping on greenish blue silk grained cloth.

3) W[hitney], A. D. T. Daffodils.  Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1888.  Dr. Mary E. Baldwin Collection.  Gold stamping on coated dotted-line grain quarter white cloth and gold cloth.  Binding design by Sarah Whitman, unsigned.

4) Benjamin, S. G. W.  Persia and the Persians.  Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1887.  Gold, black and red stamping on calico-texture cloth, not embossed.  Ungrained book cloth is starting to appear.
 
 



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