Cotton Mather On Witchcraft
Cotton Mather On Witchcraft: The Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather, Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press (n.d.). First published Boston, 1692.
Simplified binding: calf spine, marbled paper by Pamela Smith over boards, dark blue rolled leather endbands, three edges sprinkled with red acrylic. Decorative additions of alum-tawed leather and birch plywood. Endpaper and doublure of blue handmade paper by Ruscombe Mills, followed by double folios of vintage handmade paper from Wookey Hole Mill. Bound 2014.
9.75 x 6.5 x .75”
Binding décor references the scaleboard structure, common in New England when this text was originally published. Alum-tawed thongs would have been laced through slots in each signature adjacent to the spine, then glued to thin, horizontally-grained wood boards, likely covered in blue paper.
Cotton Mather On Witchcraft: The Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather, Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press (n.d.). First published Boston, 1692.
Simplified binding: calf spine, marbled paper by Pamela Smith over boards, dark blue rolled leather endbands, three edges sprinkled with red acrylic. Decorative additions of alum-tawed leather and birch plywood. Endpaper and doublure of blue handmade paper by Ruscombe Mills, followed by double folios of vintage handmade paper from Wookey Hole Mill. Bound 2014.
9.75 x 6.5 x .75”
Binding décor references the scaleboard structure, common in New England when this text was originally published. Alum-tawed thongs would have been laced through slots in each signature adjacent to the spine, then glued to thin, horizontally-grained wood boards, likely covered in blue paper.
Cotton Mather On Witchcraft: The Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather, Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press (n.d.). First published Boston, 1692.
Simplified binding: calf spine, marbled paper by Pamela Smith over boards, dark blue rolled leather endbands, three edges sprinkled with red acrylic. Decorative additions of alum-tawed leather and birch plywood. Endpaper and doublure of blue handmade paper by Ruscombe Mills, followed by double folios of vintage handmade paper from Wookey Hole Mill. Bound 2014.
9.75 x 6.5 x .75”
Binding décor references the scaleboard structure, common in New England when this text was originally published. Alum-tawed thongs would have been laced through slots in each signature adjacent to the spine, then glued to thin, horizontally-grained wood boards, likely covered in blue paper.
