Judging a Book by Its Cover: Bookbindings from the Collections of The Grolier Club, 1470s-2020

A beautifully produced celebration of bookbinding, its design and history.

The average reader may not pay them any mind, but to those steeped in book history and collecting, bookbindings are simultaneously art and conveyors of provenance and backstory They often give expression to a book’s contents and always are delightfully tactile—all but the most pedestrian of them have a story to tell. The importance of historic and fine bindings to the founders of the Grolier Club is evidenced by thei...