Simon Beattie: Rare Books, Manuscripts, Music, Ephemera

Periwinkle blue brocade paper, anyone? 😍 Used here as wrappers on a copy of: [FRISCHMANN, Johann]. Series priorum, annexorum collegio deputatorum. [N.p., 1657]. #giltypleasures #periwinkleblue #floral #brocadepaper #decoratedpaper

A showstopping brocade serving floral realness as endpapers on a copy of: RIGG, Thomas. Disputatio Juridica … Edinburgh, 1724. #weloveendpapers #brocadepaper #decoratedpaper ✨✨✨

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And now for a very elegant and understated bronze varnish paper, used here as wrappers on a copy of: BEIER, Adrian. De receptu tam personaum … Jenae, Sumtibus Christoph. Enoch. Buchta 1675. #welovebronzevarnishpaper #giltypleasures 💛

Another lovely brocade, used here as wrappers for: BANNIZA, Johannes Peter von. Vera religionis libertas in tritico per zizania non suffocando vindicate ... Würzburg, 1746. #giltypleasures #brocadepaper #decoratedpaper

No better way to start a Monday than with a peppy orange brocade paper! 🧡 Used here as wrappers on a copy of SCHOBER, Johann. Barnabas Segregatus Actor. XIII. v. 2. Das ist Erleuchtung-und Revocations-Predigt … Dresden, 1652. #weloveendpapers #andorangewrapperstoo #orange #brocade #decoratedpaper #giltypleasures

Let's all collectively sigh over this gorgeous brocade paper 😍😍😍 ✨✨✨ Used here as wrappers on a copy of: KEDD, Jodocus. Unredlichkeit Melanchthonis unnd anderer seiner Mitthelffer … Straubing, 1654. #brocadepaper #shinythings #giltypleasures

Today we're going to the dark side with some black brocade paper wrappers! 🌘✨🖤 On a copy of: KÖRBER, Otho. Nova Novorum, Strenae Loco Pontificiis Transmissa ... Leipzig, 1611. #giltypleasures #gothypleasures

Brokatpapier, in which gold leaf is impressed upon paper which has already been stencilled with colour. Southern Germany, 18th century, used here as covering for boards on a copy of Johann Kaspar Barthel, Disputatio Inauguralis Juridica de Decimis … (Würzburg, Engmann, 1729), and featured in our latest e-list! #giltypleasures
http://www.simonbeattie.co.uk/…/18th_ce ntury_summer_2019.pdf

Happy Tuesday! Loving these brocade paper wrappers on a copy of: ZEÄMANN, Georg. Copi, Oder Abschrifft Deß von der Röm. Kays. Mayestät an die Ertz-Fürstliche Durchleuchtigkeit Ertzhertzog Leopolden in Oesterreich … Gedruckt im Jahr 1630. #giltypleasures #decoratedpaper #weloveendpapers #andwrappers

Some sunny yellow brocade paper wrappers to brighten up your day! ☀️☀️☀️ On a copy of Dissertatio inauguralis de Conrado Koellino ... Helmstedt, 1749. #giltypleasures #brocadepaper #weloveendpapers #andbrocadewrapperstoo

We've got #giltypleasures for all ages, including this fantastic brocade paper hornbook! ✨ By Paul Reymund, design no. 60, Nuremberg, 18th cent. ✨ They were printed eight to a sheet; this one has been cut out and used on the cover of a children's book.

Two brocade papers for the price of one, complete with tobacco-smoking native! On a Psalter de Genève, 1780. #giltypleasures #weloveendpapers

Contemporary red brocade wrappers on an Italian manuscript dated 1755. We love this pattern! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ #giltypleasures #weloveendpapers #welovezigzags

One of the earliest brocade papers, by Boas Ulrich of Augsburg, who died in 1710. As endpapers on a copy of Le nouveau testament, A Bruxelles, Chez Eugene Henry Fricx, 1702. ✨ #giltypleasures ✨

18th-century German brocade paper. #GiltyPleasures

Starting off #giltypleasures week with a bang! 💥 We are loving this multiple-stencilled brocade paper (not quite a drap d'or, as it doesn't appear to be finished with any hand-colouring), probably produced in Southern Germany c.1720. A remarkably well-preserved example 😍 #giltypleasures #weloveendpapers #brocade #germany #eighteenthcentury #gilt

What can we say, we're suckers for block printing, especially for the example on this 18th cent. music manuscript! 😍 #weloveendpapers #nottechnicalyendpapersbutwhatever #decoratedpaper #blockprinting #floral #music #manuscript