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Description: Includes etiquette guidelines for leaving cards, samples of card sizes and mourning borders, samples of typefaces and colors for addresses, facsimiles of Chicago club crests, samples of styles of engraving, including wedding invitations, and samples of three business advertisements.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1887]
Call number: 610370
Creator: Cobb's Library Company (Chicago, Ill.)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last Trust, June 2022.
Dimensions: 19 cm

[Emery Record Preserving Company book binding tool sample book]

Rare Books

Sample book containing examples on leather and paper of: type ornaments, stamps, rolls, fillets, personalized stamps, stamping frames in various sizes, die samples and other binding decorations. Various ink colors and gilt are shown. The final two pages contain samples of the Emery Record Preserving Company book labels and printed advertisements.

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Commentarii in Libros VIII Aristotelis de Physica, circa 1385

Manuscripts

Burley's book of commentaries on the eighth book of physics by Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) The volume is noteworthy for being written on paper rather than vellum, and features a classic Latin hand with seven major initials in gold and colors, and later comments in the borders. Numbered in modern hand in pencil on pages 36, 60, 95, 173, 197, 226. Renumbered in pencil on bottom page, outer corner prior to rebinding in 2022.

mssHM 75077

Prang's chromos album cards in oil colors book marks &c

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for L. Prang & Co. with decorative initial letters, graphic borders, and a sprig of holly at bottom left.

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L. Prang & Co.’s birthday and general congratulation cards and wedding congratulations. Fall season, 1884

Visual Materials

Image of a two-fold price list for L. Prang & Co. for birthday cards, congratulatory cards, and wedding congratulations on satin.

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Epicedium for John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater (d. 1649) and his wife Frances Stanley Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater (d.1636),with various epithalamia and acrostic verses celebrating the marriage of their daughter Magdalen to Sir Gervase Cutler, 1633

Manuscripts

An elaborately decorated and painted collection of celebratory verses for the marriage of Lady Magdalen Egerton (d. 1664) to Sir Gervase Cutler (d. 1644), including two painted coats of arms fully blazoned in proper colors and gilt, a watercolor emblem of bowmen with the legend "Omnia Vincit Amor," and a painted and decorated family tree pedigree of the Egerton family. The whole written in an amateur calligraphic hand, with painted borders and minor floral decorations, and with additions in a slightly later hand to 1644. Two of the verses are signed: by "Th. Saintleger" and "Ab. Darbie."

mssHM 68179

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Hampshire Job Printing Establishment

Visual Materials

A relief print advertising the services of the Hampshire Job Printing Establishment in Northampton, Massachusetts. The showcard is printed by letterpress technique on white-coated cardstock in blue-and-red ink. Item features multiple decorative typefaces and ornamental borders. Text advertises printing services for, "books, pamphlets, catalogues, blanks, bill-heads, shop-bills," and various card formats. The top border is labeled, "Horizontal Card Press Office" and text throughout describes use of a new horizontal card press that can create up to 1000 impressions an hour. Possibly printed by the Hampshire Gazette based on text stating that, "Large additions having been made to the Jobbing material in this establishment, the Printer of the Gazette is now prepared to execute all orders in that department..." The establishment's location is also described as, "Three doors West of Warner's Coffee House," and before moving in 1853, the Gazette Office was located near the Lyman Block and Oliver Warner House.

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