Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 57
^ over on to the board itself so as to cover up the holesused for the bands. This is called a half-binding. Onthe leather of such half-bindings there is usually someblind tooling, lines or rolls or even small cameo stamps. Mediaeval bindings are commonly provided with clasps.The original reason of… … Fig. 45.—Half-bound book. EOLLS, BOOKS AND BOOKBIXDINGS. 45 leaves flat, but of course artistic binders saw that claspsmight be made very ornamental, and so many of them are.They have survived as ornamental adjuncts to a bindinguntil the present day, although there is no necessity forthem. Bosses…
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