Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 175
actually puton the velvet itself. Canvas is rarely foundduring Elizabeths reign, butit does exist, and is usually embroidered in a coarse mannerwith tent-stitch. In the seventeenth century the taste for velvet bindingsstill remained, but not so exclusively, as there were manymore bound in silk or… … Fig. 78.^Engiisli embroideredbook, canvas (1648). MISCELLAXEA. 153 Peace, Plenty, and numbers of biblical subjects, David andBathsheba, Solomon and Queen of Sheba, Jacobs Dream,Jacob wrestling with the Angel, Abraham and Isaac, andmany more ; and besides these there are numbers of quaintlittle…
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