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Bookbindings and rubbings of bindings in the National Art Library, South Kensington Museum (1898)

National Art Library (Great Britain), Weale, W. H. James (William Henry James), 1832-1917 · London : Printed for H. M. Stationery Off., by Eyre and Spottiswoode · leaf 110

An illustration from Bookbindings and rubbings of bindings in the National Art Library, South Kensington Museum, 1898, leaf 110
sant within a quatrefoil flanked by four trefoils. Lateraldivisions : four eight-lobcd rosettes (D. 18 m.) and three lobestamps (L. .35 m.) with two dragons, from the union of whosefoliated tails springs a stem terminating in a fleur-de-lys, on whichis perched a bird; the intervening spaces… … 36,37 London, c. 1200. Sides of a Book-cover (8| x 5 J in.), each with a border formed bythe repetition of stamps, the panel within being divided into twoby & vertical row of stamps. The stara])s employed are the sameas on .34, 35, with the addition of a circular medlfHicn (D. 25 ra.)and a lobe…

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