Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · London : Constable · leaf 213
bear the diamond-shapedspaces characteristic of foreign work, filled with impressionsfor cameo stamps, often triangular. Wynkyn de Wordeused the same stamps. White deer skin bindings were used much in England inthe fifteenth century; they were unornamented, and usually 190 THE BOOK: ITS HISTORY AND… … Fig. 89.—English blind tooled bindings.Oaxton. (1491.) in the Bibliotheque Nationale ; but there are two treatises byJohn Bagford which may be of about the same date, earlyin the eighteenth century. These treatises have beenpublished by the Bibliographical Society, and are full ofinteresting…
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