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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 56

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circles, squares, and diamonds,with scrollwork running through it, the orna-ments of which are of Moresque character, andoften azured. Of course, a classification of this sort islacking in scientific precision, since all threeof these styles existed at the same time, andare to be found on books… … ITALIAN, i6TH century. 35 Bookbindings Old and New. 37 dence, were any needed, of the extraordinaryartistic richness of the Itahan renascence. Nor is this the whole story. While Grolier andhis fellow-collectors were developing a French artin Italy, and with Italian workmen, the art wastaking root…

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