Fine Bindings

 'Gold-stamped Binding', kladcat's Flickr photostream

Guidelines

 Items have been included due to the fragile and aesthetic quality of their bindings.

 Many books in this collection feature decorative gold patterns inlaid on their spines. 

Examples

• a 10 volume strictly limited edition of The Complete Writings of Robert Burns

• The Complete Writings of Alfred de Musset

• a 29 volume set of works by Guy De Maupassant
   
• Historia de la revolucion de la republica de Colombia en la American Neridional by José Manuel Restrepo
   
•  a 6 volume set of  Imaginary conversations by Walter Savage Landor
   
• Works of  Jean de La Fontaine  

'Old Books', Moran Brenn Flickr photostream.

Availability

Melbourne campus.

Access

·       Most of the books in Fine Bindings are available for use in the Library only and must be read in the Special Collections reading area under "Special Collections Conditions of Use" rules.

For access to these items, please ask library staff in the Help Zone on Level 1.

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