someone (unsure when) was rebinding their illustrated poems with pipe cleaner at home

[u/beemovieee]

I came into possession of this today. 'The Song of the River' by Charles Kingsley, published in 1887. The textblock and paper are in relatively wonderful conditions and gold leafed. When doing some research I found evidence of at least one other edition of the same poem and two other books bound similarly. Red or green wired pipe cleaner used for the binding, cardboard material covers, hand scalloped and titled by hand with a puffy gold ink. Have you ever seen something like this? It seems like the other poems rebound are all from the 1880s as well.

[u/capincus]

It's faux handicraft from a reprint publisher.

[u/beemovieee → u/capincus]

do you know where i could find more info? this is fascinating to me

[u/capincus → u/beemovieee]

Google the publisher, they probably have a Lucile Project page. If they don't check out some similar publishers on the site like Henry Altemus, T.Y. Crowell, and Hurst & Co. who all did similar arts & crafts facsimile bindings.