Binding Collection (#7)

Codex Lebuinus. 825-850. Binding
Codex Lebuinus. Northern France, 825-850. Detail of binding, Cologne, 11th-12th centuries. Decorated in silver, ivory and precious stones. The central figure depicts Bacchus

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Dutch painter and etcher. The Sacrifi
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669) Dutch painter and etcher.The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1636. Alte Pinakothek. Munich. Germany

Bookbinding / Diderot
The interior of a French book binding establishment : preparing the leather, sewing the gatherings, making the boards, pressing the volumes. Date: circa 1760

Chinese women with bound feet. Date: circa 1890

China - Shanghai - Woman with bound feet reclining on divan. Foot binding was the custom of binding the feet of young girls painfully tight to prevent further growth

Smallest book and millipede, SEM
Smallest book in the world with a millipede. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a millipede (class Diplopoda) and the smallest published book in the world

Smallest book in the world held on a human finger. This is the smallest published book in the world, a tiny leather-bound volume that measures just 2.4 by 2.9 millimetres in page area

Weaving willow around hazel rods to create a willow wigwam

Crop rotation: harvesting corn, 1855. Reaping with a scythe, binding and stooking. Crop rotation is the practice of growing different crops alternately on the same patch of ground over a cycle of

Reaping with sickles and binding the sheaves, England, c1800

Book cover - The Jungle Book
Embossed book binding for The Two Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling featuring elephants being led through a swamp. 1926

Book cover - A Mystery of the Air by John F. C. Westerman
Front cover of a book with a fine graphic illustration of a passenger aircraft. c.1930

Book cover - Old Christmas by Washington Irving
Cover of Old Christmas by Washington Irving, depicting a jolly scene showing revellers dancing beneath a bunch of mistletoe. The cover is intricately decorated with a border of holly and mistletoe

Book cover - Tom Browns Schooldays
Beautifully embossed book binding of an edition of Tom Browns Schooldays. 1896

Book cover - Elise et Katel
Decorative binding of a book, Elise et Katel featuring stylised flowers in gold. c.1900

La Navigation Aerienne by J. Lecornu
Beautiful cover to La Navigation Aerienne featuring an airship flying through the clouds over a cityscape. 1914

Liqueur set in a preserved elephants foot, 1903 (c). Silver and glass, made by R P, hallmarked Chester, 1903-1904. Two-handled elephants foot bound with silver

Cutting and Binding Grass With Automatic Machine - a view of a two horse drawn machine for cutting and binding grass being driven by a man in a field. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Pulling and Binding Flax, Co. Antrim - a picture of six men gathering flax by hand. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

Bookbinding in a European-run Japanese paper factory
European-run Japanese paper factory - sorting piles of handmade paper by size and weight. The European boss/overseer is at rear. Date: circa 1910s

Tobias Crisp
TOBIAS CRISP Puritan churchman harassed for his antinomian views, holding that the moral law is not binding on Christians such as he. He died of smallpox. Date: 1600 - 1643

Binding Braille Books
Binding Braille books for the blind. The large volumes each contain 100 pages. Date: circa 1930s

Sphere binding cover
Binding for a volume of The Sphere magazine, subtitled, An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home. The design features two women representing East and West holding a globe

Book cover design, Hassan by James Elroy Flecker
Book cover design in red and gold, Hassan (The Story of Hassan of Baghdad and How he Came to Make the Golden Journey to Samarkand), a verse drama by James Elroy Flecker

Book cover design, Carnets de Voyage en Italie
Book cover design in art deco style, Carnets de Voyage en Italie by Maurice Denis. Date: circa 1930s

Book cover design by Mme Marot-Rodde
Book cover design in art deco style by Mme Marot-Rodde, Poems by Maurice Donnay. Date: circa 1930s

Chinese woman with bound feet. Date: circa 1890

Bound foot, China
Two photographs of a womans bound foot, China. Date: circa 1890

Woman with bound feet, China. Date: circa 1890

The Practical Puttee, WW1
Humorous illustration depicting various uses for the puttee, the binding used by soldiers, and particularly officers, to keep warmth in and dirt out of boots during World War I. Date: 1915

Album Designs Art Nouveau Jewelry 1899-1900
Artokoloro

BOOKBINDER, 1568. The bookbinder binds large and small books on all subjects in parchemnt or planed boards which are fitted with clasps and ornamented, some books are gilded on the edges

Microscopic view of ligand binding to a receptor protein
Microscopic view of ligand binding to a receptor. The receptor protein alters its chemical conformation (three dimensional shape)

Source Size = 2086 x 2845
The Paris International Exhibition of 1867: Binding of Aytouns " lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, " by J. Ramage and Co. France

The Arrest of Samson, c. 1628 / 30
XAM77341 The Arrest of Samson, c.1628/30 by Dyck, Anthony van (1599-1641); 146x254 cm; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria; Flemish, out of copyright

Man binds sheaf on field with corn, Johanna Henriette Besier, 1875 - 1944

Inner left wing of the High Altar of St. Peters in Hamburg, the Grabower Altar
XKH145259 Inner left wing of the High Altar of St. Peters in Hamburg, the Grabower Altar (tempera on panel) by Master Bertram of Minden (c.1345-c.1415); 172x170.5 cm; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

The Bookbinder, published by Hartman Schopper (woodcut) (b / w photo)
XJF137039 The Bookbinder, published by Hartman Schopper (woodcut) (b/w photo) by German School, (16th century); Private Collection; German, out of copyright

Landscape with corn harvest: august, Jan van de Velde (II), 1608 - 1618

August, Jan van de Velde (II), Claes Jansz. Visscher (II), 1618

To the right hon able Lord Viscount Kingsborough, ... this plate representing a perspective view of a lapping room, with the measuring, crisping or folding the cloth in lengths

Nakamura karoku no kinokuniya koharu, The actor Nakamura Karoku in the role of Kinokuniya Koharu. Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865, artist, [between 1825 and 1830], 1 print : woodcut

The Angel Binding Satan, Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740-1812, French

CHOLERA EPIDEMIC, 1832. A Case of True Cholera. Satirical English cartoon on the London cholera epidemic of 1832. Contemporary lithgoraph by C.J. Grant

MARSH HARVESTER. American farmers harvesting wheat with a McCormick Marsh Harvester, patented in 1875. Two men ride on the platform

Book with Pompadours Arms, 18th century, French. 1787

Reaping with sickles and binding the sheaves, England. Stipple engraving c1800

Mixing the dry and melted ingredients together with a wooden spoon

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