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Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Lafcadio Hearn, Sarah Eyman Whitman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

2 volumes. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Paged continuously. Includes index (volume 2) Volume 1 cover in green cloth with illustration and lettering in silver; volume 2 cover in yellow cloth with illustration and lettering in black. Gold leaf on top edges. Volume 1 has an engraved bookplate of Elisha Rhodes Brown, on front pastedown. Cover design attributed to Sarah Wyman Whitman. Gift of the Estate of Eleanor Fayerweather.
The Last Leaf : Poem

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Geroge Wharton Edwards, Francis Hopkinson Smith, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[106] p. : chiefly ill., plates, facsim. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Illustrated title-page in black and red. "The phototype illustrations in this volume were printed by The Lewis Co." Illustration on cover with gold leaf. Vellum spine with gold title and author lettering. Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire

Howard Pyle, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

xx, 296 p. : ill. . Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Recounts the adventures of Robin Hood, who slew a deer on a wager, became an outlaw in Sherwood Forest, and collected around him a merry band, including Little John, Allan a Dale, Friar Tuck, and Will Stutely. c.1--Gift of the Estate of William E. Brigham (SPECIAL) ; c.2--Gift of Louisa D. Sharpe Metcalf (CIRCULATES)
Selections from the poetry of Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick, Edwin Austin Abbey, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

vi, 188 pages : illus. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Cover title: Selections from the Hesperides & Noble numbers of Robert Herrick. Illustrated title-page with title in red. Preface signed: Austin Dobson. c. 1 Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke ; c. 2 From the library of Chester L. Dodge. 2nd copy in original embossed and illustrated cover. Binding design by Edwin Austin Abbey; front cover with gilt-stamped full cover sunburst design, yellow, red and black-stamped flower devices, & black and red-stamped decorative title lettering; all edges gilt. Art Nouveau design style.
The Old Farmer's Almanack

Robert Bailey Thomas, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

48 pages : illustrations. "Sold by the booksellers and traders throughout New England." At head of title: Number Seventy-Eight. This copy has cover wrappers printed with advertisements for businesses in New Bedford, Mass. Inside wrapper has publisher info: New Bedford: S. Hutchinson. This copy has a hole punched in the upper left hand corner of the cover, looped with a piece of string.
Draining for Profit and Draining for Health

Geroge Edwin Waring, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

252 pages : illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. New and revised edition. Includes index. First edition published: New York: O. Judd & Co., 1867. Decorated cloth binding, in brown cloth. Front and back cover boards have a band of decorative embossing at the top and at the bottom. At the center of the front cover board is a gold stamped motif of a figure digging a drainage ditch. To his side are additional tools and some drainage tiles. The image is signed Feely, lower right. Spine has some decorative stamping. Lowthorpe Collection. Feely, John, 1819-1878, cover designer.
The origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art in its primeval phases in Egypt, China, and Mexico ... and its subsequent progress to the present day / by Henry Noel Humphreys ; illustrated by a number of specimens of the writing of all ages and a series of facsimiles from autograph letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.

Henry Noel Humphreys, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

178 pages, 28 leaves of plates : facsimiles (some color). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Spine title: History of writing. All color plates are signed: "H.N. Humphreys, Lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to The Queen." Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Gilt edges. Cover is black papier mache with red backing paper. The design is the same on both covers. Binding design by Henry Noel Humphreys. Library copy is missing spine and is disbound. "The English firm Jackson & Sons held the patent for the papier-mâché bindings of the mid-1840s to 1860s that are associated with Henry Noel Humphreys. Intended to imitate medieval hand-carved bindings and architectural sculpture, so-called papier-mâché bindings were made from a molded mixture of plaster, a filler, and possibly actual papier-mâché and antimony." Unusual cover. Gift of David & Margot Nishimura.
The Preacher

Owen Jones, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[36] pages : color illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Unusual cover: Ornate wooden binding produced with a heat-stamping machine by Remnant & Edmond. Title "carved" into wooden cover. Ornamental stamping on inside border. Black Morocco spine over ebonized wood boards; front cover with branch borders with titling 'vanity / of vanities / saith the / preacher all / is vanity', and entwined floral decorations framing central titling. Rear cover repeating front, except additional floral decorations replacing central titling. Spine with blind-stamped floral decorations and lettering. Black coated endpapers; turn-ins with gilt-stamped ornaments; all edges gilt. Binding design by Owen Jones. Gift of Mrs. Henry G. Russell. Edmonds & Remnants, binder.
The Miracles of Our Lord

Henry Noel Humphreys, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[1], 31, iv pages : color illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Ornamental borders, and illustrations, in color. "Remarks of the illuminator. Descriptive index of the miracles" signed: H.N.H. [i.e. Henry Noel Humphreys] "The title-page contains a figure of the Saviour .. in a niche, ornamented in a style corresponding with the rest of the volume."--page iii. "It has been sought to render the [papier mâché] cover also appropriate, by enriching it with medallions representing the principal miracles; it has been partly taken from a .. cover in carved ivory, executed in the 12th century .. The designs of the medallions are original."--page iv. "The English firm Jackson & Sons held the patent for the papier-mâché bindings of the mid-1840s to 1860s that are associated with Henry Noel Humphreys. Intended to imitate medieval hand-carved bindings and architectural sculpture, so-called papier-mâché bindings were made from a molded mixture of plaster, a filler, and possibly actual papier-mâché and antimony."
Gray's Elegy

Thomas Gray, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Title page and all interior pages colorfully decorated to resemble an illuminated manuscript. Binder's paper label mounted inside back cover. Gilt edges, inside cover edges with decorative gold tooling. Although the Elegy was often honored with illumination in Victorian Britain, Owen Jones's version contains a number of innovations. It was the first book issued in Leake's patented relievo binding (Ball, Catalogue, no. 46d), the first example of a title page with names of both the London and New York publishers (McLean 91), and an early example of Jones's ability to use the chromolithographic press in designing a consistently interrelated program of illumination.
Book of Trees

Mahlon Day, Alexander Anderson, Joseph W. Morse, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

22 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm. "First and last pages blank; pasted to printed wrapper. Wood-engraved illustrations signed by Alexander Anderson and J.W. Morse. Contents: The saw mill -- The olive tree -- The evergreen cypress -- The cedar of Lebanon -- Stump and knees of a cypress tree -- Brazil wood -- The talipot tree. Note: ""Mahlon Day, 374 Pearl Street.""Engraved illustrations on cover and title page. Engraved frontispiece and endpiece on pages [2] & [3] of wrapper.""School books, &c.""--Publisher's catalog, page [4] of wrapper. Cover has border with five different publisher's decorations. Text is hand sewn into yellow paper printed wrapper. In green ink at head of title page: "Mrs. R.P. Sawyer. Along left title page border: Lorenzo Lamb Book Groton."