{"id":468,"date":"2013-08-07T17:50:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T21:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scref\/?p=468"},"modified":"2013-08-07T17:50:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T21:50:36","slug":"bindings-of-the-day-decorated-ward-libretti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/2013\/08\/07\/bindings-of-the-day-decorated-ward-libretti\/","title":{"rendered":"Bindings of the Day: Decorated Ward Libretti"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, all of the images are from early 19th century Italian libretti from the Ward Collection in the Harvard Theatre Collection. All of the decorated wrappers appear to be later than the original libretto which they protect, but they are no less interesting and beautiful for it.<\/p>\n

TS 8232.172 1806<\/a><\/p>\n

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TS 8070.253 1814<\/a><\/p>\n

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TS 8193.419 1816<\/a><\/p>\n

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TS 8154.591 1818<\/a><\/p>\n

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TS 8415.428 1820<\/a><\/p>\n

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TS 8587.231 1822<\/a><\/p>\n

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Today, all of the images are from early 19th century Italian libretti from the Ward Collection in the Harvard Theatre Collection. All of the decorated wrappers appear to be later than the original libretto which they protect, but they are no less interesting and beautiful for it. TS 8232.172 1806 TS 8070.253 1814 TS 8193.419 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2032,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookbinding"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2032"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}