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A Raging Granny wearing numerous buttons, holding a toast and looking right at the photographer

This post-incunabulum, an edition of Saint-Jerome’s works printed in Basel, Switzerland, has a binding typical of the first years of the 15th century, with its wooden boards and endpapers of manuscript waste.

Large red button with purple design: woman's symbol with fist, in white lettering: "International Women's Day March 8-11, 1978".

This is a newsletter which details the events and activities of the International Women's Day Committee.

This allocution, by Imrich Kružliak and from the Joseph Staško Fonds (20-002), was written in honour of Andrew G. Grutka, bishop of Gary, Indiana, a recipient of the Milán R. Stefanik Award, held in New York, 28 October 1979.

This exquisite binding in red morocco is a modern binding, probably dating to 350-400 years after the book was initially printed. Tooled and stamped in gilt, with elaborately gilded edges, this was a binding executed for someone with a love of luxury…

A Venetian, Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari (1508-1578), established a bookstore and printing shop in Venice with his father, named “Liberia del Fenice” (the Phoenix bookstore). As we have seen with other printer’s devices, the mark may illustrate the…

A further example of paste paper where the colour scheme has been generated by the “pulled” technique. In this case, one clearly sees the “pulling” or stretching effect that the glue has undergone in producing this design. Thisexample carries an…

Many hands and many quills have annotated this work by Jerome de Hangest, a theologian hailing from Compiègne and a contemporary of Erasmus. The marginalias annotation, as is the text itself, are in Latin, which would indicate a certain amount of…

A binding of parchment on cardboard, this binding has had its blind-stamped ornamentations coloured black. Its title has also been handwritten in ink on the spine. Note the demi-lune shape of the textblock’s fore-edge: this is a technique typical of…