Crowding of ornament
Large specific vignettes
Gift book style at its height
Vivid bookcloth covers enabled by the introduction
      of analine dyes
Generous gold-stamping on spine and covers
Heavily designed covers, sometimes containing paper inlays

1)  Miles, William.  A Plain treatise on horse-shoeing.  Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1856.  Estate of Mrs. Mary W. Almon.  Gold and blind stamping on dotted-line grain brown cloth.  An exceptionally well preserved cover with a bold stamp, possibly only on an American book.

2)  Choules, John Overton.  The cruise of the yacht North Star; a narrative of the excursion of Mr. Vanderbilt's party to England, Russia, Denmark, France, Spain, Italy, Malta, Turkey, Madeira, etc.  Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1854.  Gold and blind stamping on dotted-line grain olive green cloth.  The back cover is blind-stamped only.  Yellow binder's ticket:  "Bound by B. Bradley & Co. Boston" affixed at lower left on rear pastedown.  Reverend Choules was the beloved pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Newport, and was asked by Commodore Vanderbilt to be the chaplain on North Star's maiden voyage.

3)  Eddy, Daniel C.  Angel whispers; or, the echo of spirit voices designed to comfort those who mourn.  Boston: Dayton and Wentworth, 1854. 2nd ed.  Gold and blind stamping on ribbed-morocco grain blue cloth.  The back cover is blind-stamped only.

4)  Browne, D[aniel] J[ay].  The American poultry yard; comprising the origin, history and description of the different breeds of domestic poultry...; with an Appendix. embracing the comparative merits of different breeds of fowls, by Samuel Allen.  New York: Published by C. M. Saxton, 1850.  Gold and blind stamping on criss-cross grain bluish-grey cloth.  The same vignette is blind-stamped on the back cover, a frequent practice to hold down cost.  Note that the blind-stamped border is the same as that on the previous cover for Pictorial Life of George Washington.