The Textile Manufactures of India is an 18 volume set of fabric sample books put together in 1866 by John Forbes Watson and published by the...

Dates in pencil on front inner cover

Dates in pencil on front inner cover

I have been looking at the history of fabric books and in particular sample books. I want to share with readers but also point out there is nothing new under the sun. I found this in the Metropolitan Museum of Art website as it is part of their collection. In …

Dates in pencil on front inner cover

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Book Shelves features a classy collection of vintage books.  This wallpaper is made on a new generation non-woven substrate and printed with eco-friendly inks, easy to install on any wall type. Brand: MINDTHEGAP Collection:  The Antiquarian Dimensions: W 20.5" x L 118" per roll x 3 Sold and priced as a set of 3 rolls/drops for a total width of 61.5" Pattern Repeat: 25.5" Printed to order, 1-3 week lead time Special order item Made in Transylvania Samples ship within 1-2 weeks Installation Guide   Samples measure approximately 11.5" x 8" and are meant to aid in purchase decisions and represent the final print, however they do not contain all aspects of a design. Color discrepancy between samples and original wallpaper cannot be ruled out.

Dates in pencil on front inner cover

Dealer's name on cover and spine. Mounted label on inside of front cover: J. Borgey & Leclerc, Lyon; no. 2064. Mounted illustrations are samples of elaborate...

Dates in pencil on front inner cover

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Franklin Library Books! Leather-bound and Leatherette bound, beautiful books as described below These books are basically like new and have very tight spines as if they haven't been opened unless otherwise noted 01 The Spectator Bird - Wallace Stegner - First Edition - 1976 - 267 pages - $50.00 02 The Human Factor - Graham Greene - First Edition - 1978 - 306 pages - $70.00 03 The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan - Limited Edition - 1976 - 381 pages - $65.00 04 Moby-Dick - Herman Melville - 522 pages - 1974 - $65.00 - some rub wear to top and bottom left corners of spine, otherwise in excellent condition, does not appear to have been read as spine is stiff 05 The Annals of Tacitus - 1982 - 375 pages - $40.00 - has some scratches to gilding at page edges, otherwise book is in excellent condition 06 Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac - Limited Edition - With the illustrations of Eugene About - 1977 - 387 pages - $40.00 06A Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac - 1980 - 376 pages - $32.00 07 The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann - 1981 - 724 pages - $35.00 - Some rub wear to the letters at the spine, previous owner put sticker on inside of front cover 08 Greatest Plays - Anton Chekhov - Translated by Elisaveta Fen, Illustrated by Stan Hunger - 1979 - 274 pages - $25.00 09 Selected Essays - Michel de Montaigne - Translated by Donald M. Frame, Illustrated by Gonzalo Fonseca - Limited Edition - 1980 - 477 pages - $50.00 10 Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner - First Edition - 1979 - 657 pages - $50.00 11 Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut - First Edition - 1976 - 256 pages - $45.00 12 The Red and the Black - Stendahl - Limited Edition - With the illustrations of Mette Ivers - 1979 - 495 pages - $35.00 13 Tom Jones - Henry Fielding - Limited Edition - with the illustrations of William Small - 1979 - 732 pages - $45.00 14 Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev - translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett, Illustrated by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese - 1984 - 247 pages - $25.00 15 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - Limited Edition - with the illustrations of the author - 1977 - 726 pages - $39.00 16 Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope - with the illustrations of Edward Ardizzone - 1982 - 534 pages - $28.00 17 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - Illustrated by Paul Degen - 1980 - 803 pages - $30.00 18 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin - with portraits by Chris Duke - 1980 - 367 pages - $90.00 19 The Aeneid - Virgil - The Translation of John Dryden, Illustrated with the Woodcuts of Johann Gruninger - 1982 - 425 pages - $33.00 - in excellent condition 20 The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio - Limited Edition - Translated by G.H. McWilliam, illustrated by Murray Tinkelman - 1979 - 738 pages - $80.00 20A The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio - Translated by G.H. McWilliam, with the woodcuts of Jose Narro - 1981 - 749 pages - $45.00 21 Ulysses - James Joyce - illustrated by Kenneth Francis Dewey - 1979 - 750 pages- $38.00 22 The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot - Limited Edition - illustrated by Paul Geiger - 1982 - 533 pages- $30.00 22A The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot - illustrated by Herbert Tauss - 1981 - 536 pages- $25.00 23 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - Translated by Francis Steegmuller, Illustrated by Malcolm Liepke - 1979 - 423 pages- $37.00 24 Romantic Poets, William Blake to Edgar Allan Poe - Edited by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, Illustrated by Eugene Karlin - 1982 - 461 pages - $45.00 - Title page has embossed stamp from previous owner 25 Selected Stories - Guy de Maupassant - Limited Edition - Translated by Roger Collet, Illustrated by Ben E. Wohlberg - 1980 - 352 pages - $35.00 25A Selected Stories - Guy de Maupassant - Translated by Roger Collet, Illustrated by Istvan Ventilla - 1983 - 364 pages - $24.00 26 Candide - Voltaire - Limited Edition - the translation of Tobias Smollet, with the illustrations of Sylvain Sauvage - 1978 - 215 pages - $35.00 26A Candide - Voltaire - Special Edition - the translation of Tobias Smollet, with the illustrations of Antoni Clave - 1981 - 154 pages - $30.00 27 Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe - with the color woodcuts of Pierre Falke - 1979 - 355 pages - $35.00 28 Picture Palace, Paul Theroux - First Edition - 1978 - 337 pages - $28.00 29 Greatest Tragedies of William Shakespeare - with the illustrations of Rockwell Kent - The Franklin Library/Oxford Library of the World's Greatest books - Special Edition - 1981 - 639 pages - $32.00 30 The Alcestiad, Thornton Wilder - illustrated by Daniel Maffia - First Edition Society - 1978 - 170 pages - $28.00 31 Proteus, Morris West - illustrated by Robert Heindel - First Edition Society - 1979 - 306 pages - $22.00 32 The Bold and Magnificent Dream, Bruce Catton and William B. Catton - illustrated by Daniel Maffia - Limited First Edition - 1978 - 643 pages - $45.00 33 Crime and Punishment, Feodor Dostoevsky, Translated by Jessie Coulson - illustrated by Robert and Corinne Borja - 1982 - 492 pages - $45.00 34 The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel, Francois Rabelais, Translated by John M. Cohen - with illustrations of Frank C. Papi - 1982 - 715 pages - $20.00 35 Selected Plays, William Shakespeare, - with the illustrations of Henry Fuseli - 1981 - 655 pages - $34.00 - Some rub wear to back cover 36 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain - Limited Edition - with the illustrations Ben F. Stahl - 1975 - 404 pages - $38.00 - there are two nicks out of the ribs on the spine, otherwise the book is in very good condition 37 The Confessions of Saint Augustine, the translation of Edward Bouverie Pusey - illustrated by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese - 1982 - 312 pages - $48.00 38 The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy - Limited Edition - illustrated by Roy Andersen - 1978 - 486 pages - $55.00 - Endpapers color has faded at edges 38A The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy - illustrated by Ben F. Wohlberg - 1980 - 417 pages - $45.00 39 Selected Plays - Tennessee Williams - illustrated by Jerry Pinkney - 1977 - 665 pages - $45.00 40 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - illustrated by Alan Reingold - 1983 - 401 pages - $35.00 (good to very good cond) 41 Lord Jim - James Conrad - Limited Edition - illustrated by H. Tom Hall - 1977 - 318 pages - $55.00 42 Four Plays - Henrik Ibsen - Limited Edition - translated by Eva Le Gallienne - illustrated by Christine Duke - 1977 - 612 pages - $45.00 42A Four Plays - Henrik Ibsen - translated by Eva Le Gallienne - illustrated by Tony Eubanks - 1979 - 403 pages - $25.00 -Some discoloration on gilding of top edge of text block 43 The Odyssey - Homer - in contemporary verse by Robert Fitzgerald - illustrated by W.T. Mars - 1979 - 502 pages - $38.00 44 Tales of Edgar Allan Poe - With the Illustrations of Harry Clarke - 1979 - 304 pages - $45.00 45 The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Limited Edition - illustrated by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese - 1978 - 266 pages - $70.00 46 The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri - Translated by John Ciardi - with the Engravings of Gustave Dore - 1983 - 689 pages - $30.00 47 The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner - Special Edition - illustrated by Kenneth Francis Dewey - 1983 - 362 pages - $40.00 48 Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson - Limited Edition - With the Illustrations of N.C. Wyeth - 1975 - 305 pages - $60.00 49 Four Plays - Eugene O'Neill - Limited Edition - With the Illustrations of Jerry Cosgrove - 1978 - 545 pages - $29.00 50 Trinity - Leon Uris - First Edition Society - With the Illustrations of Herbert Tauss - 1976 - 807 pages - $55.00 51 Selected Poems - William Butler Yeats - Limited Edition - Selected by M.L. Rosenthal - Illustrated by Liam Roberts - 1979 - 300 pages - $75.00 51A Collected Poems - William Butler Yeats - Definitive Edition, With the Author's Final Revisions - Illustrated by Jack B. Yeats - 1983 - 522 pages - $85.00 52 Walden - Henry David Thoreau - Limited Edition - Illustrated by Ronald Keller - 1976 - 408 pages - $85.00 53 Five Stories - Thomas Mann - Limited Edition - Illustrated by Robert Borja - 1977 - 382 pages - $33.00 54 Selected Letters of William Faulkner - First Edition Society - Edited by Joseph Blotter - 1976 - 594 pages - $34.00 55 A God Against the Gods - Allen Drury - First Edition Society - illustrated by Ted CoConis - 1976 - 407 pages - $55.00 56 Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe - Limited Edition - illustrated by David Palladini - 1978 - 371 pages - $55.00 57 Collected Poems 1909-1962 - T.S. Eliot - Limited Edition - 1976 - 212 pages - $58.00 58 Collected Poems 1923-1975 - Robert Penn Warren - First Edition Society - illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon - 1976 - 294 pages - $40.00 59 Sons Come and Go Mothers Hang In Forever - William Saroyan - First Edition Society - illustrated by Al Hirschfeld - 1976 - 230 pages - $34.00 60 Portrait of a Lady - Henry James - illustrated with drawings by John Singer Sergeant - 1984 - 566 pages - $30.00 61 Nine Tales - Henry James - Limited Edition - illustrated by Ben F. Wohlberg - 1977 - 678 pages - $45.00 62 Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer - Limited Edition - In contemporary verse by J.U. Nicolson - 1974 - 634 pages - $65.00 63 Oresteia - Aeschylus - Limited Edition - Translated by Richmond Lattimore - Etchings Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese - 1980 - 186 pages - $35.00 64 Five Comedies - Aristophanes - Limited Edition - Translated by Benjamin Bickley Rogers - with the illustrations of Laszlo Matulay - 1982 - 403 pages - $45.00 65 The Prince - Machiavelli - Limited Edition - illustrated by Quentin Fiore - 1978 - 146 pages - $65.00 66 Eight Comedies - William Shakespeare - Limited Edition - 1978 - 700 pages - $45.00 67 Rhetoric and On Poetics - Aristotle - 1981 - 244 pages - $30.00 68 The Iliad - Homer - In contemporary verse by Robert Fitzgerald - Illustrated by W.T. Mars - 1983 - 664 pages - $95.00 69 Great Histories of William Shakespeare -Special Edition - With the illustrations of Rockwell Kent - 1983 - 649 pages - $34.00 - has two spots of whit

1776 is one of the most monumental years in the history of the Western World. Thomas Jefferson and his fellow ‘Founding Fathers’ transformed the world with the Declaration of Independen…

On the occasion of the Jane Austen classic's anniversary, here's a selection of covers from years past up through the present — the good, the bad, the jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and a few that pale in comparison to the book's contents.

I’ve always wanted to do a book haul blog post but two things have made that impossible – I can only use eBooks these days and I get 95% of them from the library.

There’s something about physical books that I adore. And when it comes to handmade books, much comes into play in a meaningful way.

Lowell's American Textile History Museum Has Closed for financial reasons. The Museum was founded in 1960. For about sixty years they have been a primary source for ----well---American Textile History, particularly about the New England mills that printed so much of the fabric that found its way into quilts. Read the sad news here: (It's not breaking news---they decided in June.) http://www.athm.org/news/athm-seeks-to-close/ A few things we will miss: Exhibitions Homefront and Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War Programming: See a great day at this blog post: http://fileunderfiber.blogspot.com/2011_10_01_archive.html Collections: http://chace.athm.org/singleDisplay.php?kv=70515 Mill books I would guess they had more dated sample books than any library---at least any library that was free and open to the public by appointment. Other swatch libraries might charge you $500 to access them. Fabric diaries Photographs and documents about the American mills.

This is a sample book of vintage druggist cut and gummed labels made available by digitizing the collection by the Sloan Foundation and Lyrasis. The original author of the book and labels is Harris…

At Juniper Custom, we have cultivated sources for antique books over the many years in business.  Our carefully curated linear foot collections of high-quality books offer a diverse range of literature, history, philosophy, and the arts, meticulously selected to enrich any interior. With publication dates spanning from 1800 to 1920, each book in our collection is a stunning testament to a bygone era, showcasing unparalleled craftsmanship and an abundance of character. Our team of experts at Juniper Custom takes great pride in simplifying the process of creating an elegant library. We meticulously handpick each book, ensuring its availability and suitability for your desired aesthetic. By entrusting us with this task, you can focus on the creative aspect of your design, knowing that your library's shelves will be adorned with beautifully curated antique editions. We offer homeowners and designers a seamless experience, ensuring that the entire process, from selection to delivery, is efficient and hassle-free. With our expertise and dedication to customer satisfaction, we are here to assist you in transforming your vision into a reality of unparalleled elegance and charm. Please note that the photos show a representative selection of books. For modest orders, books are in stock and ready to ship quickly. For orders over 5' or rush orders, please check on timing and availability by emailing  [email protected] All orders on Juniper Custom are final sale due to the custom nature of the products.

These terrific images appear in a book of textile samples (swatches) produced by the Robert Maison, based in Paris, France. A label on the inside of front cover notes: “Maison Robert, Victor Ducroquet, gendre et successeur, no. 78312.” The mounted illustrations are chiefly watercolor drawings of textile designs, numbered 4495 to 4735, but without … Continue reading "A Glorious Book of French Textile Samples (1863)"

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