The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 551
ght backfrom their expeditious specimens of Oriental binding, our European work-men did not fail to turn their brilliant models to account. An entire revolution, moreover, which had taken place in the forma-tion of royal and princely libraries, was to produce a revolution in bindingalso. Bibles,… … Fig. 381.—Seal of the University of Oxford, in which is a Book bound with Corners and Clasps. society becoming more and more polished every day. For the pleasureof readers, the gallant of one sex and the fair of the other, books wererequired more agreeable to the eye, and less rough to the touch,…
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