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Slavic and East European Digitized Visual Materials: Book Jackets

Book Jackets

640 book jackets published from 1895 to 1949 were mounted and subsequently bound bySel'vinskii, Il’ia L’vovich. Pushtorg.  the Library in eight volumes. These book jackets are mostly for books in Russian, except for the following:

  • Azerbaijani (v. 7 no. 6);
  • Belarusian (v. 5 no. 30; v. 7 no. 2, 17, 30),
  • Polish (v. 8 no. 43);
  • Serbian (v.1 no. 65, v. 7 no. 73);
  • Ukrainian (v. 1 no. 76; v. 2 no. 19, 21; v. 4 no. 8, 30, 67; v. 5 no. 44, 69, 72, 75; v.6 no. 22; v. 7 no. 3, 10, 12, 15, 42, 52, 56, 67, 69, 76, 77)

This entire collection, called Scrap book of Russian Bookjackets, is held Babel', Isaak Emanuilovich. Rasskazy. by the Rare Books Division (call no. *QDZ+++ (Scrap book of Russian bookjackets). There is a checklist by Olʹga Sidorova (in Russian but entries have annotations in English), Katalog knizhnoĭ oblozhki : iz sobrani︠i︡a Nʹ︠i︡uĭorkskoĭ Publichnoĭ Biblioteki, Slav︠i︡anskiĭ i Baltiĭskiĭ Otdel [1998] and the collection has also been digitized.