Updated January 23, 2020
Internet sites for booklovers who enjoy drooling over extraordinary (often pre-20th Century) book illustrations, unusual cover art, and other visual or tactile aspects of books; who enjoy looking at objects that artists and craftspeople have made with, for, or about books, about writers, about libraries, or about readers; or who enjoy gazing at images of readers depicted by artists or captured by photographers.
Some of these sites are not updated very often, or have been discontinued. They are nevertheless included, as they contain some stunning images and/or interesting information.
- American Trade Bindings and Beyond
- The Art of American Book Covers
- The Art of Book Covers (1820-1914)
- Atlanta Book Arts Collective Facebook Page
- BibliOdyssey
- Book by Its Cover
- Book Cover Archive
- Book Covers Anonymous
- The Book Design Review
- Book Worship
- Book-Inspired Crafts (Kansas City Public Library Pinterest Board)
- Booklover
- The Bookplate Society: Gallery
- The Casual Optimist: Books, Design, and Culture
- Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie
- Face Out Books
- From Old Books
- The Jacket Museum
- Jacket Whys: Children’s & YA Book Covers
- A Journey Around My Skull
- Letterology
- Literary Stamps
- The Mechanical Curator [British Museum]
- New York Public Library’s Digital Gallery
- Old Book Art
- Old Book Illustrations
- Pinterest’s Collection of Bookplate Images
- Pratt Institute Ex Libris Collection
- Publishers’ Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of the Book
- Punto de Papel
Please email links to similar sites you have discovered to calgough@bellsouth.net
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