Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 250
,first Earl of Oxford, and their broad bordered style is knownas the Harleian. The centres, in the finest examples,are left nnornamented, but there are numbers of examples,especially in later work, in which the centres are filled witha diamond-shaped mass of small gold toolings. Their stylehas been… … RO^E^a^lfc«HARLEY ^^ Fig. 119.—The book stamp of Eobert Harley. advent of Roger Payne, a native of Windsor, who set upin London as a bookbinder about 1770. Paynes two predecessors, Berthelet and Mearne, had bothenjoyed Court positions, but Payne never did; he workedwhen he chose, and only then, and…
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