Making Their Mark: Decorating and Finishing

An Introduction to Finishing, by hand or machine. Finishing adds the titling and decoration to a book’s cover, back and spine. Learn about the tools, processes and materials used to decorate a book’s binding.

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Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers Bindings

An eighty-year retrospective of Decorated Publishers’ Bindings from our Kathleen V. Roberts Collection.

Bound for Beauty

Celebrating the 19th Amendment: Suffragists in Print

Women’s Word; the struggle to get the vote.

From Abigail Adams to Zitkála-Šá, suffragists put their sentiments into print, stating their point of view. Formally organizing in the 1840s, they won the right to vote, state-by-state, with national ratification in 1920. This centennial exhibit of women writers, editors and publishers celebrates their decades of activism.