Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · London : Constable · leaf 60
at thatit pays the clever faussaires of the Continent to direct theirattention to covers of this kind. They need not even takethe trouble to provide manuscripts for the inside; loosecovers will sell with equal readiness. Ivory carving played an important part on early bindings.Apart from diptychs,… … Fig. 48.—French bindingof the thirteenth cen-tury with enamels. 48 THE BOOK: ITS HISTOEY AND DEVELOPMENT. kept in the cathedral treasury at Milan, and is without itsoriginal inside; it is attributed to the fifth century. Early Irish manuscripts were usually bound in quitesimple limp leather covers,…
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