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Peg Woffington by Charles Reade 1899
by Audrey Sage The novel Peg Woffington which was written in 1853 by the British author Charles Reade. Inspired by the popular stage play Masks and Faces, Reade portrayed the London success of the Irish actress Peg Woffington (1720–1760). UNCG owns a copy of this work in the Robert C. Hanson Performing Arts collection in […]
“A Fine Suit of Clothes” Exhibit about Book Bindings Opens in Jackson Library: Noted Book Artist and Historian to Speak April 16
When the anonymous author of Commercial Bookbindings, a historical sketch and description of an exhibition at the Grolier Club, New York, wrote in 1894, “Nobody thought of expecting the publisher to throw in a fine suit of clothes with the book,” he was commenting on the early years of what was to be the golden […]
Trade Binding Images Now Available Through Public Catalog
The American Trade Bindings Digital Library ContentDM database has been up for over a month. [See earlier post.] Users can now access images through the public catalog now that code to the live database is moved to the public catalog. Images are shown in both the brief and full record displays. If you want to […]
American Trade Bindings now Online
The American Trade Bindings Digital Library presents over 1100 book covers which chronicle the development of book binding in the United States. The ATB project contains a variety of both fiction and non-fiction titles, primarily from the Charles M. Adams American Trade Binding Collection, published between the 1830s and the 1920s. American Trade Bindings Digital […]