Other Online Resources

These online exhibitions and collections feature 19th and early 20th century bindings and book covers. If you know of a site that should be added, please contact bindings@ua.edu.

A comprehensive bibliography of print and online resources is also available as part of the PBO project at http://bindings.lib.ua.edu/bib.html

Amy Sacker: Boston Book Designer (A project by Mark Schumacher at UNC Greensboro)

Blissful Books and Bindings (Bowdoin College)

Bookbindings in Paper and Cloth, 1800-1925 (Queen's University Special Collections, Ontario)

Burpee Seed Catalog Cover Gallery (Burpee Seed Co.)

Cover Story: 19th Century Cloth Book Covers (University of Florida)

Eureka! There's Gold in Them Thar Books (Exhibit description, University of Virginia)

German Publishers Bookbindings 1811 -1925 (Howard W. Gunlocke Rare Book and Special Collections Room, Georgetown University)

Gleaming Gold and Shining Silver (Article on an exhibition curated by Sue Allen, Yale Bulletin, Vol. 31, No. 2, September 2002, Yale University)

http://inlinnengebonden.nl/ (A website by a Dutch collector on Dutch cloth Art Nouveau and Art Deco bindings)

The Lucile Project (An ambitious project by Sid Huttner at the University of Iowa, to attempt to recover the publishing history of a single 19th century book).

James Burn and Co. Ticketed Bindings from Robert J. Milevski, Preservation Librarian at Princeton University Library

Jackie Gleason Parapsychology Collection (University of Miami)

Jack London Collection (Utah State Univeristy Special Collections)

Judging a Book by Its Cover : Gold-Stamped Publishers' Bindings of the 19th Century (Columbia University)

Margaret Armstrong: American Book Designer (A site by Linda M. Wilson)

Minsky Online: Publishers' Bindings Gallery

Norwegian-American Book Cover Art (St. Olaf University)

Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library's Decorative Publishers' Bindings: Ohio Imprints and Authors.

Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious - Bookbindings from Special Collections in the Princeton University Library: an online version of the exhibition curated by Scott Husby in the Main Gallery during November 2002

Printed Flower Gardens: The Bookbindings of Margaret Armstrong (Exhibit description, University of Virginia)

Publishers' Cloth: A Gallery of Bindings, ca. 1840-1910 (Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts Company)

Publishers' Trade List Annual: Index of Contributors and Advertisers 1873-1947 (A project by Sid Huttner at the University of Iowa)

To Judge a Book by its Cover: 19th Century American Pictorial Book Covers (Oberlin College Special Collections)

Uncle Tom's Cabin Covers (The University of Virginia)

Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders, and Book Designers (Princeton University)

Victorian Bookbinding: Innovation and Extravagance, 1820-1910 (University of North Texas)