Library and Archives Focus Exhibit – Book Cover Binding and Design Now Up!

We are thrilled to have our most ambitious library and archives focus exhibit to date open for visitors. This is some serious eye candy for book cover design fans. Here are just a few pics from the show but it really is worth seeing them in person.  You have some time, the show is up until February 19, 2016.

Introductory text

Detail of case one, various binding styles including accordion and stab sewn.

Detail of case one illustrated Chaucer in foreground.

Case two, Authors, Artists and Moviestars!

Cover art attributed to Charles E. Buckley, former Currier Museum of Art Director.

History of Wood Engraving, 1883.

Marbled paper covers a student text from 1829.

Cloth cover from the 1982 artist book The Circus of Dr. Lao.