Bookbindings old and new; notes of a book-lover, with an account of the Grolier Club of New York; (1895)
Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 · New York, London : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 102
incrustingin wood designs of gold and of brass, of shelland of ivory. The main defect of Padeloup was an in-sufficient sense of form. Some of these floraldesigns in mosiac are as unrelated to theshape of the book they decorate as thoughthey had been cut out of an embroidered silkor a printed… … FRENCH, i8TH CENTURY. liY DEROME. 8i Bookbindings Old and New. ^2) Most of Padeloups designs are fragmentary;they lack unity of motive ; they have no centreto which the rest of the decoration is dtdy sub-ordinate. Some of them, less pretentious thanothers, have a quality of their own. Beyond…
Grolier Club · Bookbinding
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