Early American Bookbinding: "Cover as Clue to Content"
Exhibition displayed at the Redwood Library and Athenaeum
June 6 - August 20, 1999

Credits:
Text and Content: Maris Humphreys
Web Version Design: Jennifer Caswell

Maris Humphreys wishes to acknowledge the generosity of Sue Allen in kindly granting permission to use her study guide with title headings to "American Book Covers 1830-1900", distributed to participants at her workshop held at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Rare Book and Manuscripts Section of American College and Research Libraries. Calvin Otto has also added significant keys to identification in his Only in Cloth, prepared for an exhibit of his own collection. A final thanks goes to Russell J. De Simone, Hand Book-Binder, for the generous contribution of his expert knowledge in the craft of book-binding and for the loan of tools. All the books are from the collections of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum

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