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Bouchot, Henri,1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C.(Edward Clements),1838?-1899, Grevel, H, Einsle, Anton,1848-1897 · London, H. Grevel & Co. · leaf 285

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Fig. 150.—Cover oi the Evangeliarium of Noyon, made of skin, copper and horn, with reliquaries. invention of panel-stamps. These very commonly bore aninscription with the name of the binder, who was generally a 266 THE Book. bookseller as well. Each bookseller applied himself to thework, or at… … Fig. 151.—Cover of a book in enamelled goldsmith work of Limoges, fifteenth century,representing Merlin lEnehanteur transformed into a scholar. sale. The fashion was not then to expose for sale, as now,unbound books. Purchasers wanted an article easy to handle, Early Examples. 267 which they were…

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