Curling ornament largely omitted
Emblematic pictorials
Modest label style titling
Limited cloth grains, colors used
Tendency toward plain, blind stamped designs
Gold stamping often restricted to titles on spines
        or used with restraint on spine and front cover
Bookcloth with pronounced covers

1)  Bement, C. N. The American poulterer's companion ... New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1867.  A new ed., enlarged and improved.  Library of Raymond Gorges.  The copyright notice is dated 1856; originally published in 1844.  According to Sue Allen, Yale University Library owns a copy with "gold stamping on maroon sand grain cloth flecked with spots of a larger grain."  Gold and blind stamping on yellow speckled olive cloth, possibly criss-crossed grain.  Blind stamping visible with indirect light.  Vignette on front cover only.  An unusual decorative cloth.

2)  Lewes, George Henry.  Studies in animal life. New York: Harper Brothers, Publishers, 1860.  Gold and blind stamping on ribbed morocco grain reddish brown cloth.  The restraint of the 1860s is beginning.

3)  Palmer, James Croxall.  Antarctic mariner's song.  New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1868.  Bequest of George Henry Calvert.  Received June, 1897.  Gold and blind stamping on patterned sand grain green cloth, with beveled boards.  The first edition, titled Thulia (New York: Samuel Colman, 1843) and bound by Elles and Middlebrook in dark-brown ribbed cloth, bears the same gold stamp.

4)  Whittier, John Greenleaf.  Snow-bound.  A winter idyll.  Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868.  Greenvale Collection.  Bequest of Catherine A. Barstow.  Gold stamping on patterned sand grain blue cloth with beveled boards.  The framing of the vignette hints at the Eastlake-style ornament of the next decade.  A gift book, intended to be more decorative.