ART 346/446 Art of the Book

While fine bindings appear on thousands of Special Collections items, this list identifies some of the more spectacular ones.  You can also find the call numbers for other fine bindings in Special Collections by searching some of the following keywords in the catalog's Words search and limiting to Special Collections: armorial, calf, morocco, gilt, tooling, marbled, vellum, or stamped.

•  The Life of Napoleon
  Particularly intricate gold tooling
• The Doctor
  Example of fine gold tooling
• Sir Joshua Reynolds: His Life and Art
  Gold tooled pansies
• Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick
  Unusual gold tooled theatre masks
• Metodo Practica della ven
  Fine morocco binding with paste paper endsheets
• Hē kainē Diathēkē tou Kyriou
  Stamped, hand painted vellum

Many fine bindings are also on display in the Reading Room glass-front bookcases.