Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 238
s. Some of these bindings arecoloured, that is to say, the arabesques, curves or flowersare painted by hand with some kind of enamel paint. Themain source of such coloured bindings was Lj^ons, fromwhich centre numbers of them were issued, but the fashion r ORNAMENTATION WITH GOLD. 215 was one which… … Fig. 10.—Italian inlaid and gold tooled bindingin Oriental style. Made for Queen Elizabeth. century onwards it plays an equally important part onbindings made for ordinary armigerous people. Letterings often appear on the sides of bindings of theTudor period, mottoes, initials and names. Towards…
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