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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 251

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he figures of fifteen animals (on one side, fourteen birds anda dragon ; on the other, thirteen quadrupeds, an ape, and adragon) enclosed within gracefully curving branches of foliagewith acorns, impressed from engraved metal plates (about 200 by126 m.). The animals are copied fi-om those on the…

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