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Royal English book bindings (1896)

Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · London : Seeley and Co. Limited ; New York : The Macmillan Co. · leaf 96

An illustration from Royal English book bindings, 1896, leaf 96
o. It has in the centre a large irregular panel,inlaid in black morocco, bearing the royal coat-of-arms, crowned, withinthe Garter, and the initials C. II. R., the rest of the black panel beingthickly gilded with ornamental sprays. There are large angle-pieces ofyellow leather, richly stamped, and… … Fig. 20.—Bible. Cambridge, 1674. Jaines II. CHARLES II. 77 (Fig. 19), is bound in red morocco, and ornamented all over the boardswith small, irregular panels, outlined by broad gold lines, and filled withmosaics of black and yellow leather, all ornamented thickly with smallgold stamp-work. In the…

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