Thank you for visiting the online gallery. This was our fifth exhibition surveying the Golden Age of publishers' bindings. It features 100 cover designs created by Will Bradley, Alic C. Morse, Margaret Armstrong, George Wharton Edwards, F.Berkeley Smith, The Decorative Designers Olive Lothrop Grover, Walter King Stone, W. W. Denslow, Amy Sacker, William S.Hadaway, Harry B. Matthews, W. E. B. Starkweather, Cx, Blanche McManus, Frank Hazenplug, and others. There is no catalog available. The exhibition ended July 10, 2013 and was acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In the previous four exhibitions on this subject, we showed a total of 1,500 designs by over 140 known designers and many anonymous ones.

The catalog of the Thomas Watson Ball Exhibition is available. The exhibition ended March 30, 2013 and was acquired by Penn State University in its entirety.

The catalog of the Third Exhibition, with 300 designs, is available. The exhibition ended June 2, 2011 and was acquired by The Boston Athenaeum in its entirety.

The Second Exhibition, with 300 designs, ended November 20, 2008. That entire collection was acquired by The Lilly Library at Indiana University, Bloomington. The fully illustrated catalog of the second exhibition is available in Limited and Deluxe editions and on CD-ROM.

The First Exhibition ended in August 2005, and that entire collection was acquired by the University of Alabama. A beautiful and comprehensive illustrated catalog was produced that included high resolution images of all 500 designs in the collection plus many variants, as well as bibliographic information. Essays by Richard Minsky on the aesthetic and historical aspects of this art form provide several methodologies for collecting these works, and demonstrate that artists were doing work on book covers that was prototypical of art movements that arose decades later.