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This page provides a simple browsing interface for finding entities described by a property and a named value. Other available search interfaces include the page property search, and the ask query builder.

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• File:Book lock.jpg  + (Book lock offered for sale in a 1918 catalog published for the large stationery firm Cameron, Amberg & Co. in Chicago, IL)
• File:Acanthus bookofhours.jpg  + (Book of hours with borders in a floral acanthus design)
• File:Booksewingmachine.jpg  + (Book sewing machine)
• File:Books in a standing press.jpg  + (Books in a standing press.)
• File:Guillotine.jpg  + (Guillotine paper cutter)
• File:Topedgegilt.JPG  + (Image of a book with top-edge gilding)
• File:Brass clasp with miniature, 19th century.jpg  + (In a nod to earlier times, this 19th-centu … In a nod to earlier times, this 19th-century English binding of brown goatskin is edged in brass and includes a brass clasp. An inscription inside the book reads: "Carrie Wilkie the gift of her dear Mother on completing her 18th year." The woman pictured in the miniature is possibly Carrie Wilkie's mother. Underneath the clasp you can see that the edges of the text have been covered with gold leaf.</br>This book was bound in Oxford or London by James Hayday (1796-1872) who first appears in the London directories in 1825 as Hayday & Boyer.don directories in 1825 as Hayday & Boyer.)
• File:Backing.jpg  + (Instructions for backing a book)

• File:Kettlestitch.jpg  + (Kettle stitch instructions)

• File:Marblededgesandpaper.jpg  + (Marbled edges on an 18th century book)
• File:Birdsall.jpg  + (Name pallet for Birdsall, an English bookbinder, on the squares of a binding.)
• File:D9o5EqHVUAAJaMs.jpg  + (Publisher's binding with blocked design on the front cover and spine)
• File:I 151 300.jpg  + (Rounding hammer)
• File:Edition binding variants for "The Nature Poems of George Meredith".jpg  + (Two versions of an edition binding of "The Nature Poems of George Meredith". The book on the left has cloth covered boards, and the book on the right is the "deluxe" version covered with vellum. Both versions are decorated with the same blocked design.)
• File:Wirestitcher.jpg  + (Wire stitcher machine)
• File:Handsewingonframes.jpg  + (Women sewing textblocks using sewing frames)