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Royal English book bindings (1896)

Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · London : Seeley and Co. Limited ; New York : The Macmillan Co. · leaf 32

An illustration from Royal English book bindings, 1896, leaf 32
yal book. George Vertue, in his notes on the Fine Arts, says that small goldbooks were given to Queen Anne Boleyns maids of honour; and hedescribes one of these little bindings which is, unfortunately, lost. There is, however, one exquisite golden binding in existence which QUE EN ANNE BOLETN 21… … Fig. 4.—Le Ckappellet de Ihesus, MS., sixteenth century. Margaret Tudor. a descendant of that family, in whose possession it has always beensince the sixteenth century. It is a Book of Prayers, and measuresNil inches in length, i§ inch in breadth, and three-quarters of an 22 ROYAL ENGLISH…

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