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The American Bookbinders Museum
The American Bookbinders Museum explores and celebrates the craft, culture, and tools of bookbinding.
Happy Donor Advised Fund (DAF) Day! Donate and Double Your Impact with #HalfMyDAF.![]()
A DAF is a charitable investment account to let you easily direct donations to the causes you support. Learn how you can unlock a matching donation! ![]()
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Make a donation and commit to spend down half the money in your DAF. Submit grants to as many nonprofits as you’d like. The more submissions you make the higher your chances of receiving a match. ![]()
When you have your grant confirmation (usually downloadable from the fund sponsor’s website, or you can take a screenshot), complete the commitment form and attach the DAF grant confirmation(s). bit.ly/1-2mydaf![]()
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Your support helps the ABM continue its preservation practices, programming, and more! ![]()
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The American Bookbinders Museum's EIN is 26-3235193.![]()
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Of all the National Days, this one may just be the silliest.![]()
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Happy National Mad Hatter Day! 🎩 The Mad Hatter is a beloved character from the iconic children’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.![]()
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First published in 1865 by the Oxford University Press. It was bound in red cloth adorned with gold detail and featured illustrations by John Tenniel.![]()
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The earliest copies of Alice’s Adventures have a curious history of their own. After the first 50 copies were printed and bound, Tenniel was unhappy with the print quality of his illustrations, citing uneven ink distribution. Carroll heard about his illustrator's concerns and decided to cancel the planned print, asking for the return of all copies.![]()
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Today, only 23 of those original 1865 editions are known to exist, and all but 5 are housed in public institutions. These rare treasures are now valued at $2-3 million each.![]()
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This month is Down Syndrome Awareness Month, and with that in mind, we are celebrating the work of one of the artists we carry in the ABM gift shop. ![]()
La Antigua Bindery binds pocket-sized hardcover journals. The covers and endpapers of these books are decorated by Zara Gabriella Tapia Luna, an artist with Down Syndrome.
"Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind." -Toni Morrison ![]()
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Join the American Bookbinders Museum’s membership program as a Guild Grand Master and receive an edition of Toni Morrison’s Language, a lecture given upon receiving the Nobel Prize. It is a beautiful piece about the importance of caring for words. It was hand printed and bound by No Reply Press on a Vandercook Universal I press using an 11-point Centuar font on Cotton Flurry paper; it is bound in a marbled wrapper. The text is accompanied by Elizabeth Catlett’s gripping woodblock illustrations.
Whether it's grandma’s chocolate chip cookies or Sunday sauce, we all have a family recipe with memories attached. Some choose to share this recipe with us beyond their lives and have recipes engraved on their headstones. This sweet memento is a final way for the deceased to share a piece of themselves with the world in a way which will live on in perpetuity. ![]()
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