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I like a lot of these designs as they document an interesting point in time: a meeting point between the frilly and ornate Victorian era and the simpler, more streamlined post industrial design world that was around the corner. It’s also interesting that while constructivist design has been thoroughly plundered and appropriated you dont see too many contemporary designers revisiting this era (though perhaps something like this might vaguely be related).

All of these are taken from the University of Wisconsin’s Publisher’s Bindings collection (though I’ve also included “The Washington Waddle” from Duke’s Sheet Music Collection since it went so nicely with of the other flower-themed bindings). There’s a fair amount of good stuff to leaf through throughout U of W’s digital collections… the art books are worth skipping through.

Here are two more unrelated bindings I thought I’d throw in there.