Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 216
a fertile source ofornamentation ofbindings. Many ofthe panel stampsof the early Tudorperiod are heraldic.The most interest-ing of these stampsis one which isfound in combina-tion with severalothers; it seemsto be a sort ofbackbone. Thedesign consists of a large Tudor rose, partly enclosed byribbon… … Fig. 91.—English blind stamijed binding,with the arms of Henry VIII. 194 THE BOOK: ITS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT. Then there are numbers of other stamps bearing in thecentre the coat-of-arms of Henry VII. and Henry VIH. upto 1526, namely, France and England quarterly, withsupporters, the red dragon…
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