Browse Items (18 total)

  • Collection: Douglas Cockerell Fine Bindings collection

Catalogue of books, manuscripts, maps and documents in the William Inglis Morse Collection 1926-1931.

Binding Description:Full medium green morocco leather binding; front and back covers out-lined in single gilt fillet with red dot leather inlays at the four corners and centered half way down the vertical gilt fillet and half way across the…

Photograph of the bookplate of Douglas Cockerell & Son

Item is a photograph of the bookplate of Douglas Cockerell & Son of Letchworth.

Poems of Robert Browning containing Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances, Men and Women, Dramas, Pauline, Paracelsus, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, Sordello and Dramatis Personae

Item is a series of photographs depicting a binding of the poems of Robert Browning done by George Cockerell. The poems include Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances, Men and Women, Dramas, Pauline, Paracelsus, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day,…

Title page of Bookbinding, and the Care of Books: A Text-Book for Book-Binders and Librarians

Item is the cover page of the fourth edition of Bookbinding, and the Care of Books: A Text-Book for Book-Binders and Librarians by Douglas Cockerell, with drawings by Noel Rooke.

Marbled endpapers

Item is a sample of marbled endpapers.

The Land of New Adventure: The Georgian Era in Nova Scotia.

Item is a series of photographs displaying a binding of The Land of New Adventure: The Georgian Era in Nova Scotia done by George Cockerell.Binding Description: Volume bound in full green morocco leather; elaborate full cover decoration with red…

Gravestones of Acadie, and other essays on local history, genealogy and parish records of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia with photographs by the Author

Item is a series of photographs displaying a binding of Gravestones of Acadie, and other essays on local history, genealogy and parish records of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia with photographs by the Author done by Douglas Cockerell. Binding…

Acadiensia Nova (1598-1779): New and unpublished documents and other data relating to Acadia ( Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Maine, etc.). The actors: Sir William Alexander, Jacques de Meulles, Gargas, Vincent de Saccardy, Marquis de la Roche, Delabat and J.F. W. des Barres

Item is a series of photographs displaying a binding of Acadiensia Nova (1598-1779): New and unpublished documents and other data relating to Acadia ( Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Maine, etc.). The actors: Sir William Alexander, Jacques de Meulles,…

Pamphlet case designed and handmade for a manuscript letter by Richard Phillips

Item is a pamphlet case designed and handmade by Douglas Cockerell for a manuscript letter by Richard Phillips, Governor of Nova Scotia.Binding Description: A full brown morocco leather binding; blind tooled single fillet borders on front and back…

Catalogue of Old Bindings collected by Douglas Cockerell, Bookbinder of Letchworth, England… Vol. 1-2.

Item is a series of photographs displaying a binding of a Catalogue of Old Bindings collected by Douglas Cockerell, Bookbinder of Letchworth, England, Vol. 1-2, by Douglas Cockerell. Edition Statement: A bound catalogue describing 127 titles with…