Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 248
ON WITH GOLD. 225 The radical change that Mearne made with regard to LeGascons interlacing fillets was that he made them up byusing successive im-pressions of a two-horned curve insteadof a continuous filletor ribbon. Althoughat first sight therewould seem to be noconnection betweenone of these… … colours interchanged, -^^^ in.-English o-old-tooled binding inand are tooled in gold, all-over style, by Samuel Mearne.with the very decora-tive addition of silver paint, water-colour, applied by handhere and there. Eliot and Chapman did much excellent work in theeighteenth century and invented…
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