This collection is open for research.
James L. Thielman was a collector of fine bindings. He was esteemed among bibliophiles and bequeathed 80 bindings from his
personal collection to the Lilly Library after his death in 1996.
The catalogue was prepared by Martha R. Thielman and consists of a short typed entry
for the binder, author, title, printer and date of binding, as well as a color
photograph of the binding. Each item is numbered and the entire file is arranged in
chronological order by date of binding from 1978-1995. Also present, following the
catalogue, is an "Index of Binders"; "Cost (Book & Binding)," arranged in numerical
order of the catalogue; "Estimated Value – July 1994," also in numerical order; and
finally a list of all the books, each entry of which includes in addition to author,
title, etc., the date of publication and the cost of the volume, arranged in
alphabetical order by name of binder.
A list of the bindings is available. The books are cataloged in the Lilly Library. Consult IUCAT at call number: Z274 .A2
T43.
Series:
List of Bindings
1. Greenhill, Elizabeth.
Temptation of St. Anthony, by Gustave Flaubert
2. Smith, Sally Lou.
Bible
3. Sellers, David.
Engraved in the Wood, by George Mackley
4. Cantle, Brian.
The Odyssey of Homer, by Homer
5. Greenhill, Elizabeth.
Bacchae, by Euripides
6. Brockman, James.
Ulysses, by James Joyce
7. Stevens, David.
Six Poems, by Arthur Rimbaud
8. Wilson, Susan Spring.
Splendid Idle Forties, by Gertrude Atherton
9. Lubett, Denise.
Dialogues of Creatures Moralised, by Anon
10. Evrard, Sun.
Fall, by Albert Camus
11. Robinson, Ivor.
Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides
12. Powell, Roger.
Tales, by Edgar Allan Poe
13, 14, 15. Middleton, Bernard.
Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 1915–1940; ...1940–1956; ...1957–1966 and Grabhorn/Hoyem, 1966–1973, by Hellar and Magee
16. O'Connor, Gemma.
Eros and Psyche, by Robert Bridges
17. Stevens, David.
Song of Solomon
18. Sellers, David.
Book of Genesis
19. Glaister, Donald.
Moby–Dick, or The Whale, by Herman Melville
20. Cockerell, Sydney & Joan Tebbutt.
Faerie Queene, by Edmund Spenser
21. Cockerell, Sydney & Joan Tebbutt.
Minor Poems, by Edmund Spenser
22. Smith, Philip.
Moby–Dick, or The Whale, by Herman Melville
23. Lubett, Denise.
Antigone, by Sophocles
24. Lubett, Denise.
Four Poems of the Occult, by Francis Carmody, ed.
25. Glaister, Donald.
Pierre Legrain – Relieur, by Jacques Millot
26. Clements, Jeff.
Moby–Dick, or The Whale, by Herman Melville
27. Powell, Roger.
Moby–Dick, or The Whale, by Herman Melville
28. Smith, Sally Lous.
Poems of William Shakespeare, by William Shakespeare
29. Gray, Edward.
Plays of Euripides by Euripides
30. Middleton, Bernard.
Papermaking in America, by Dard Hunter
31. Mansfield, Edgar.
Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
32. Crette, Georges.
Petetes Fleurs de St. Francis, by St. Francis of Assisi
33. Crette, Georges.
Contrerimes de P.J. Toulet, by P.J. Toulet
34. Carlson, Lage.
Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
35. Kiernan. Typographic Book,
1450–1935, by Stanley Morison
36. Pye, Sybil.
Imitation of Christ, by Thomas A. Kempis
37. Olsen, Ole.
Paul Bonet, by Paul Valery
38. Brockman, James.
Moby–Dick, or The Whale, by Herman Melville
39. Rennie, Sylvia.
Persian Stories from the Arabian Nights, by Sir Richard Burton
40. Peller, Hugo.
Youth, by Joseph Conrad
41. Glaister, Donald.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
42. Glaister, Donald.
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, by Lewis Carroll
43. De Coster, Germaine & Helene Dumas.
Le dur Desir de Durer, by Paul Eluard
44. De Coster, Germaine & Helene Dumas.
Elegie D'Ihpetonga, by Yvan Goll
45. Rennie, Sylvia.
Poeticon Astronomicon, by Gaius Julius Hyginua
46. Glaister, Donald.
Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson
47. Brockman, James.
Book of Days of Llewelyn Powys, by Llewelyn Powys
48. Rennie, Sylvia.
Pierre–Lucien Martin – A Catalogue, by Pierre–Lucien Martin
49. Creuzevault, Henri.
Romances sans Paroles, Paul Verlaine
50. Greenhill, Elizabeth & Paul Colet.
Elizabeth Greenhill – Bookbinder – A Catalogue Raisonne, by Elizabeth Greenhill
51. Anthony, William.
Lysistrata, by Aristophanes
52. Johnson, Arthur.
Mirrour of the World, by William Caxton
53. Petitjean, Chantel.
Le Dernier a Parler, by Maurice Blanchot
54. Johnson, Arthur.
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
55. Evrard, Sun.
Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
56. Lobstein, Paula.
Georges Crette – Les Maitres de la Reliure, by Marcel Garrigou
57. Tonkin, John.
Psalms
58. Miura, Kerstin Tini.
My World of Bibliophile Bindings, by Kerstin Tini Miura
59. Rennie, Sylvia.
Bibliotheque Pierre–Lucien Martin – Teliure, by Pierre–Lucien Martin
60. Wilcox, Michael.
Odyssey of Homer, by Homer
61. Rennie, Silvia.
Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser
62. Lobstein, Alain.
Shakespeare, by Louis Aragon
63. Charriere, Gerard.
Drawings and Water Colors, by John Marin
64. Charriere, Gerard.
Quelque Fleurs pour des Amis, by Joan Miro
65. Kieffer, Rene.
Golden Ass, by Apuleius
66. Creuzevault, Henri.
La Bataille, by Claude Farrere
67. Tapley, James.
Moby–Dick, or The Whale, by Herman Melville
68. Richard, Michel.
Le Tricorne, by Pedro A de Alarcon
69. Marot–Roode, Mme.
Les Ballades Francaises Montagne, Foret, Plaine, Mer, Paul Fort
70. Lallier, Monique.
An Inland Voyage, by Robert Louis Stevenson
71. Carayon, Emile.
Les Confidences d'une Aieulee, by Abel Hermant
72. Smith, Philip.
Leonardo Da Vinci, by Leonardo Da Vinci
73. Weill, Lucie.
Histoire Du Chevalier de Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, by L'Abbe Prevost
74. Marius, Michel.
Une Nuit De Cleopatre, by Theophile Gautier
75. Mathieu, Monique.
An Inland Voyage, by Robert Louis Stevenson
76. Glaister, Don.
Poems of William Shakespeare, by William Shakespeare
77. Middleton, Bernard.
The Bookbinding of T.J. Cobden–Sanderson, by Marianne Titcombe
78. Middleton, Bernard.
The Doves Bindery, by Marianne Titcombe
79. Jones, Trevor.
The Divine Commedia, by Alighieri Dante
80. Sellers, David.
Pindar's Odes of Victory, by Pindar
