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Ive’s Book Brace: A 19th century American bookend

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Hailed as "a valuable invention for booksellers, librarians, clergymen and reading-men" the Ive's book brace hit the market in 1850. It was designed to hold books on partially filled shelves for "As must be well known to all, Books, if allowed to stand loosely upon a shelf, will not retain their original shape for any great length of time." It sure beats the heavy bookends made of marble, bronze and wood that had been around for centuries. It was also 27 years before William Stebbins Barnard would patent the simple sheetmetal bookend.  Charles B. Norton, in addition to being listed on...

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Looks like we found our new house wine

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What do you get when you cross a  product design agency and a Italian winery?  The answer: Librottiglia, a newly designed set of wines featuring short stories built into their labels.  The name is derived from the Italian translations of the words book (libro) and bottle (bottiglia). The stories are printed on textured paper and are held closed by  a single piece of twine. The series kicks off with three stories, each conceptually assigned to its proper bottle. Cheers! via designboom

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Tea Time! New Kickstarter campaign blends classic lit with quality tea

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Under the moniker NovelTea Tins John Pujol and Matt Kraemer have launched a Kickstarter campaign to produce a line of organic teas emanating from classic literature. NovelTea Tins has partnered with world class tea aficionados to pair the classics with award winning, organic teas. They also have enlisted the services of Iuliia Glushchuk and Dietrich Kleffel to illustrate the tins. They have two tins ready for production, The Picture of Earl Grey and Don Quixotea, with Tolstoy's War and Peach in the bullpen almost ready to go. Here's how they work: First, we pick major themes from a novel. Next we lay out the...

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Business Cards for the Book Set

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If you work somewhere within the book universe and have been thinking about updating your business card you might want to have a look at this recent post at Flavorwire highlighting some pretty nifty examples. Here's a taste:   Business card for Kristin Partlo, a librarian at Carleton College’s Gould Library Miniature book-shaped cards for the publisher Paul & Marigold by Singapore design firm Foreign Policy Letterpress printed card for Olivia Waite by Boxcar Press A business card that doubles as a bookmark Pictured at top: Business card for Morgan Dillard by Tower of Babel Design More:  Bookish Business Card Designs |...

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