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Royal English book bindings (1896)

Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · London : Seeley and Co. Limited ; New York : The Macmillan Co. · leaf 40

An illustration from Royal English book bindings, 1896, leaf 40
Y.Fletcher, in his splendid volume on the English Bookbindings in the EBWJRI) VI. 29 British Museum^ considers it to be Elizabethan. There is no doubt thatthe volume in some ways fits a description of one that was presented tothat queen by the University of Oxford at Woodstock in 1575, but Ithink… … Fig. 6.—Prayers, etc. Malborow, 1538 {Doublure). Edzoard VI. should be offered as a present to a reigning sovereign. So for thepresent I shall adhere to its former description in the show-case in theKings Library, and describe it here in its place as having been bound forEdward VI. It is covered in…

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