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The book, its history and development (1907)

Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 166

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yreason of beingkept upright. MISCELLANEA. 143 mediaeval books and also on later books, following the earliermanner in their own way, we find all sorts of designs onbook edges. It is not a subject which has attracted muchattention as yet, but it probably will in time, and there isalready enough… … Fig. 71.—Forage decorutiou iu colour. Tenth century. that it issued from the workshop of Thomas Berthelet,printer and binder to Henry VIII. Edge decoration of some sort seems to have been donefrom the tenth centtn-y onwards; at first elementary orsymbolical designs were simi^ly painted upon the…

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