Good Morning Everyone! I Have A New All-time Favorite Work Of Art, And It’s This Early 19thc Ivory

VICTORIAN PUBLISHER’S BINDINGS

Advances in printing technology and the development of cloth covers made it possible for Victorian book publishers to issue limited editions of popular titles with ornate cover decoration. The elaborate designs were mechanically stamped on colored fabric and the lettering often embossed and gilded. Packaged in a velvet-lined slip cover, these gift books were intended more for display than actual perusal. For daily reading materials, Victorians of all classes borrowed books from private lending libraries.

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this was a RIDE and the end was a huge slap in the face

why does oscar wilde take 150 pages to write something he could literally say in a paragraph

the one thing thing funnier than this caption is that the only reason they stopped doing it was that the ferret shit in the tube

i feel like tumblr will appreciate this

I think about this every hour of every day of every month by the way