Breakup of symmetry
Reflective black stamping
Eastlake-style ornament
Beveled boards
Covers stamped both in blind and in colors
Eastlake-inspired designs
Diagonal and asymmetrical designs
Smooth bookcloths without pronounced grains or patterns

1) Trafton [Knox], Adeline.  An American girl abroad. Illustrated by Miss L. B. Humphrey.  Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers; New York: Lee, Shepard and Dilingham, 1873.  Gold stamping on dotted-line grain green cloth.  A handsome design, showing the early characteristics of asymmetry and Eastlake-style ornament.  Noteworthy for the appearance of the author's name on the cover.

2) Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.  Oldport days.  With ten heliotype illustrations.  Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873.  Gold and blind stamping on dotted-line grain reddish brown cloth, with beveled boards.  Gold-stamped front vignette is reproduced from the heliotype frontpiece.

3) Spofford, Harriet Prescott.  Art decoration applied to furniture.  New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1878.  Gift of Miss M. E. Powel.  Gold, blind and black stamping on yellowish green silk grain cloth, with beveled boards.  The book cloth color has been integrated into the design itself.  The binding is signed "Nichols" at the right mid-section.  The influence of the Mediterranean cultures is felt here.

4) Whittaker, Frederick.  A complete life of Gen. George A. Custer.  New York: Sheldon & Company, 1876.  Gift of Mrs. Gouverneur Kemble Warren.  January 7, 1897.  Gold, blind and black stamping on silk grain green cloth.