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This week’s publishers’ binding is elegant in its simplicity. We love the delicate gold ferns against the green cloth, and the bevelled edge boards create a luxurious hand-feel. Notice also the type on the gold-stamped title. This spare and understated design is consistent with the aesthetic trend in American publishers’ bindings in the 1860s. Found on our copy of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s May-Day, and Other Pieces (Boston, 1867). #PublishersBindingThursday 

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. May-day, and other pieces. Boston : Ticknor and Fields.  1867.