Bookbindings old and new : notes of a book-lover, with account of the Grolier club of New York (1896)
Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 · London : G. Bell · leaf 100
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… … Bookbindings Old and New. 83 Most of Padeloups designs are fragmentary;they lack unity of motive ; they have no centreto which the rest of the decoration is duly sub-ordinate. Some of them, less pretentious thanothers, have a quality of their own. Beyond allquestion they are characteristic of their…
Grolier Club · Bookbinding
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