Floral full-cover die

Object/Artifact

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Floral full-cover die

Entry/Object ID

2020.4.46

Description

A full cover allover pattern of art nouveau grape vines and leaves. The center of die has a cut out in a vase-shape, where title and author could be slotted in. Seen on "A Tent of Grace" by Adelina Cohnfeldt Lust (1899). This cover has additional grapes stamped in a different color--also a different die.

Collection

Historic

Made/Created

Date made

1852 - 1971

Place

City

Cambridge

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Die, Binder

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Bookbinding Equipment

Nomenclature Class

Printing T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 06: Tools & Equipment for Communication

Search Terms

brass die

Material

Brass

Web Links and URLs

Brief history of Riverside Press, "A Tent of Grace" Adelina Cohnfeldt Lust, Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1899 @ Delaware Museum of Art, M.G. Sawyer Collection of Decorative Bindings