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The book : its history and development (1907)

Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · London : Constable · leaf 239

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is the beginning ofthe style which reached its ultimate form in the next 216 THE BOOK: ITS HISTOEY AND DEVELOPMENT. century. Also small triangular corner stamps occur nowand then. These also developed and eventually becameone of the most characteristic marks of Jacobean bindings. When James VI. of… … Fig. 108.—The book stamp Fig. 109.—The book stamp of of Robert Dudley, Earl of Lord Burleigh. Leicester. far been identified. But there are some remarkable booksamong those which were certainly bound for James I.which are not like the general type of his bindings, and itis likely enough that these…

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