Vintage Book Covers: Spooky Beautiful Antiques
Whether or not you like spiders…this is rather special.
Thank you, Headless Hearseman for this one:
A first edition of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal.
What a beautiful process book binding/cover crafting used to be…
Amazing…
One of my all time favorites:
July 19, 2012 at 4:52 pm
These are incredible! I guess all that art went into LPs or something. And now… PC desktops? It seems like these days we prefer to separate our beautiful things from our useful things
July 19, 2012 at 5:13 pm
It’s so true. People used to take such pride in their book collections. I actually have hundreds of antique “Ex Libris” book plates saved because the art to simply LABEL a book was so breathtaking ages ago.
July 19, 2012 at 6:42 pm
Wonderfully creepy!
July 19, 2012 at 8:39 pm
Gorgeous selections. I want to find some of these for the Shelves.
July 19, 2012 at 10:22 pm
I’d be thrilled to find the last two! You already have many fantastic monstrous editions to resurrect for the Shelves.
July 20, 2012 at 11:21 am
WOW…talking about judging by the cover– thanks for sharing this wonderful find
July 20, 2012 at 11:15 pm
You’re very welcome! So glad you enjoyed it.
July 21, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Great covers! Thanks for the post
July 21, 2012 at 5:39 pm
No problem! I’m happy people like these posts.
July 24, 2012 at 12:22 pm
I have judged these books by their covers and have fallen in love!
July 24, 2012 at 1:54 pm
That is a great quote.
July 27, 2012 at 11:12 pm
HI, great blog! Found it by accident, actually, but I’m loving it.
By the way, you can still find book covers like these – but they’re extremely expensive nowadays.
I’m an amateur bookbinder and I tend to follow most of the old ways (about 150 years old, actually) so, while researching, I’ve seen some great books made by modern artists. Not everything is scrapbooking, luckily! : )
July 29, 2012 at 3:35 pm
Welcome to the blog! If you have photos of your own projects, I’d love to see them.