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  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.

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  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."