Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · London : Constable · leaf 250
MENTATION WITH GOLD. 227 Eliot and Chapman bound largely for Eobert Harley,first Earl of Oxford, and their broad bordered style is knownas the Harleia-n. The centres, in the finest examples,are left unornamented, but there are numbers of examples,especially in later work, in which the centres are… … Fig. 119.—The book stamp of Eobert Harley. advent of Eoger Payne, a native of Windsor, who set upin London as a bookbinder about 1770. Paynes two predecessors, Berthelet and Mearne, had bothenjoyed Court positions, but Payne never did; he workedwhen he chose, and only then, and even if the…
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