Do you own any leatherbound books in your collection? I have been hankering for some lately to imitate my grandpa's library, but perhaps that's just the consoomer in me talking.
>>25163069>that's just the consoomer in me talkingIt is.
>>25163069If books you want to get have a leatherbound edition, you can get them, but you shouldn't go out to buy books because they're leatherbound.
>>25163069Yes I own 30 Bibliothèque de la Pléiade volumes. They're my favourite books to collect. Otherwise I don't own any because most leatherbound books are oversized and not comfortable to read.
I have the leather cover for my kindle and though it is very very nice I mostly just got it because the kindle clothbound covers get very dirty and wear away if you read a lot. Leather covers are easy to clean and repeated usage doesn't wear them away
>>25163069I own some Easton Press and Franklin Library leatherbounds, all second-hand. I wouldn't pay full price for them, but I do think there's value in owning a good copy of a book that means something to you.
>>25163069Yes, around 50 or so. I even have the set in your pic. It was not worth the price, although it is very nice and I like it a lot. Have 2 book of the month subscriptions with Gryphon Editions and one with Easton Press.
>>25163069My high school had a "library" that was never properly maintained and was basically just a bunch of bookshelves full of piles of books that nobody ever read. Eventually they said they were going to renovate the room it was in, gut the shelves, and either trash or sell the books inside. So, over the course of the 4-5 months before they did that, I stole several books a day from the shelves without anyone noticing.
>>25163069I recently found a soft leather bound Oxford University Press edition of Shakespeare's complete plays in a single volume from 1914, picrel is the closest I could find as I'm not at home. My copy is a little different, as it is blue, though the little flower adornments are similar if not the same. It was a very nice recent charity shop find for £5. Other than that I don't think I have any others, I absolutely adore that 1946 issuing of Gibbon's TDAFOTRE in the OP, it is absolutely gorgeous, and the pillar motif is such a good idea. I would kill for a set, though I can't justify the ~£500 to drop on it, as that's roughly a month's rent for me.
>>25163069I mean you could get Easton Press books if you specifically want leather books, but I always thought those looked pretty soullessMuch prefer the feeling of cloth-bound books
>>25163069Several. Humidity fucks them up in a matter of months. Japan isn't a leather friendly country.
>>25166768The standard Easton books look good if you only have a couple of them. A full shelf of them is cringe and makes you look like a funko pop redditor. Their deluxe editions though (like the one in OP) are great most of the time.
