Victorian Book Design — Bindings, Type, and Page Design (original) (raw)
Victorian Book Design
- Paratextuality and the Victorian Book: Bindings, Covers, Endpapers, & Frontispieces
- William Morris and the Kelmscott Press
- Type design: Emery Walker, William Morris, and the Walker House Museum
- Victorian Bibliomania: The Illuminated Book in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Book Illumination (sitemap)
- The Burne-Jones Illustrations for the Kelmscott Chaucer
- William Morris's illuminations for his translation of The Æneid
- W.G. Collingwood's binding for Ruskin Relics
- Sol Eytinge's Diamond Edition book covers for Charles Dickens's Works
- C.E. Brock and A.H. Williamson's binding and bookcover design for Dickens's A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth
- C.E. Brock and A.H. Williamson's binding, end-papers, jacket and illustrations for the Children's Illustrated edition of A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth
- Embossed cover for Charles Lever's Davenport Dunn: A Man of Our Day
- C.E. Brock's binding for Thomas Hood's Humorous Poems
- C.E. Brock's binding or Swift's Gulliver's Travels
- Caldecott, Evans, and the Production of the ‘Toy Books’: A Significant Collaboration
- William Harry Rogers, Victorian Book Designer and Star of the Great Exhibition (review of Gregory Jones's book by Paul Goldman)
Victorian Bindings: Essays about them and reviews of works discussing them
- An Introduction to Victorian Trade Bindings — Tom Kinsella's Review of Edmund King's Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings, 1830-1880
- Book Sales for the Middle-Classes: Victorian Publishers’ Bindings, 1840–1880
- ‘A Refined Division of Labour’: The Production of Cloth-Bound Books
- The British Library’s image database of bookbindings; a resource for Victorian research
- “Handsomely bound in cloth”: UK Book Cover Designs 1840-1880
- Book Bindings of the 1860s: the Christmas Gift Book
- Announcing the Laughter: Cloth Bindings Designed by Comic Illustrators
- The Aesthetics and Economics of Novelty Bindings
- Art Nouveau Bindings: Designers, Styles, Influences, and Publishers
- Bindings by the Silver Studio
- Caldecott, Evans, and the Production of the ‘Toy Books’: a Significant Collaboration
- Trade Bindings of the 1870s and 1880s
- Late Victorian and Edwardian Cloth and Card Bindings
- Some Unsigned Cloth Bindings, 1855–75: Styles and Genres
- A Contract between John Leighton and the Publishers, Grant and Griffith
- The Yellow Book's Bindings
- Bibliography
Individual designers
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Charles Bennett
- Georgina Bowers
- James Frederick Burn
- Randolph Caldecott
- Cedric Chivers
- T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Miss E. M. MacColl (1897)
- W. G. Collingwood (attributed)
- Walter Crane
- Alfred Crowquill
- Richard Doyle and Arthur Hughes
- Robert Dudley
- Mary Ellen Edwards
- Herbert Granville Fell
- Joseph William Gleeson White
- Kate Greenaway
- Althea Gyles
- Laurence Housman
- Arthur Hughes
- Henry Noel Humphreys
- Selwyn Image
- Alfred Garth Jones
- Owen Jones
- John Leighton
- William Brown Macdougall
- Thomas Robert Macquoid
- Fred Mason
- Talwin Morris
- William Ralston
- Charles Ricketts
- Charles Robinson
- William Harry Rogers
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- John Sliegh
- Godfrey Sykes
- Hugh Thomson
- Albert Angus Turbayne
- W. R. Tymms
- Albert Henry Warren
- Paul Woodroffe
Examples of Victorian and Edwardian bindings
- Cloth and Paper bindings (3 dozen designers; more than 350 examples)
- Leather bindings
- Wood, paper maché, and other relievo covers
Related Material and Related Web Resources
- Victorian book illustration (in the Victorian Web)
- Victorian & Edwardian bookplates (in the Victorian Web)
- Monograms and Initial Letters (in the Victorian Web)
- Edmund King's book binding blogspot (UK site)
A scholarly blog which gives an on-going account of the latest research on Victorian trade bindings, based on work at The British Library. The blog primarily consists of detailed descriptions of the book covers and other physical properties. It is especially useful for scholars of the material book.
Last modified 18 September 2024