Sometimes social media offers up random gifts to brighten your day. Recently I have been enjoying posts from a Facebook group called “We Love Endpapers.” Enthusiasts from all over the world share pictures of both modern and antique decorated endpapers, and occasional links to related blog posts, like this one from the National Library of New Zealand. The post, “Opening up the Covers,” has great information about varieties like paste paper and gilded paper, with useful resources at the end, including the database of images at the University of Washington. In the spirit of “We Love Endpapers,” I offer a few images from Amherst’s collection that have caught my eye over the past few months.
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click on a caption to view more information in the library catalog
![Panoplia omnium illiberalium mechanicarum... / Hartmann Schopper (Frankfurt : Georg Rabe for Sigmund Feyerabend, 1568) [probably rebound in the 1870s]](https://consecratedeminence.wordpress.amherst.edu/files/2016/10/schopper1568-e1475340565157.jpg)
