The decorative bindings showcased in this category include decorative gilt designs on the boards, highly illustrated jackets, and other book coverings that will make your bookshelf sparkle.
A guide to Penguin’s little clothbound classics series.
A collector’s guide to the Queen’s Treasures series – a delightful vintage Bell & Son’s collection of children’s books with decorative cloth covers.
A collector’s guide to the beautiful clothbound White’s Fine Editions series of literary classics, including cover designers and other details.
A collector’s guide to the books in Penguin’s clothbound poetry classics series.
A delightful collection of small classic poetry volumes with attractive cover designs on the dust jackets over clothbound hardback bindings.
A review of the mostly philosophical non-fiction titles included in the Pocket Pocket Hardback Classics collection (selected because they have “changed the history of thought”).
FAO Schwarz and Target have banded together to release these pretty children’s classics book boxes, complete with swag.
Calla Editions is Dover’ premium imprint, and it primarily reproduces works from the “golden age of illustration” – a period when bookmaking was a beloved art form and many stunningly illustrated books were produced. Most are cloth-bound facsimiles of deluxe editions of illustrated children’s classics, but there are also original designs, photo collections, recipe books and other non-fiction selections.
A collector’s guide to all the paperback books in the beautiful Penguin Deluxe Classics series, with arresting cover designs and French flaps.
Collector’s guide to Barnes & Noble Pocket-sized collectible classics series: small volumes of poetry, philosophy and history in decorative bonded leather.