Psychical Research Collection

Book Binding

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Butler, Betsy. “‘There Ain't Anything in This World That Sells a Book Like a Pretty Cover’: Nineteenth-Century Publishers' Bookbindings in Library Collections.” Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, vol. 29, no. 1, 2010, pp. 23–30. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/27949535.

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Cooke, Simon. “'A Refined Division of Labour’: The Production of Cloth-Bound Books.” The Victorian Web, 2013, www.victorianweb.org/art/design/books/production.html.

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Cooke, Simon. “The Aesthetics and Economics of Novelty Bindings.” The Victorian Web, 2015, www.victorianweb.org/art/design/books/cooke14.html. 

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Hayes, Lee. Bound to Please: The Iconic Victorian Binding in an Era of Industrialization and Mechanization. 10 Aug. – 10 Oct. 2015, University of Adelaide, Adelaide. https://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/special/exhibitions/victorian-bindings/

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Silverman, Randy. “Can't Judge a Book without Its Binding.” Libraries & the Cultural Record, vol. 42, no. 3, 2007, pp. 291–307., doi:10.1353/lac.2007.0051.