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 555
ooks.Italy set us the example of beautiful bindings in morocco, stamped and gilt ;imitated, however, from those of the Koran and other Arabian manu-scripts, which Venetian navigators frequently brought back with themfrom the East. The expedition of Charles VIII. and the wars of Louis XII.introduced… … Fig. 384.—Bookbinders Work-room, drawn and engraved in the Sixteenth Century, by J. Amman. binders of her own, surpassing those who had been to them as initiatorsor masters. Jean Grollier, of Lyons, loved books too much not to wish togive them an exterior ornamentation worthy of the wealth of…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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