Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 234
EiG. 103.—Italian gold tooled binding made forJean Grolier, 1532. flyleaf at the beginning or at the end. Grolier was the firstcollector to have his books bound in a particular way forhimself. OENAMENTATION WITH GOLD. 211 Grolier bindings have been very freely imitated,especially by a native of… … Fig. 104.—English gold tooled binding by Thos.Beithelet. Made for Henry VIII. fraudulent finisher looks out for an old Italian book of theright date, bound in plain leather. Then he copies partsfrom one or other of the many Groliers which can be seenand studied by any Londoner or Parisian for the…
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