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Examples of bookbinding executed by Robt. Rivière & Son : exhibited at the Leipzig Exhibition in 1914 for a few weeks prior to the Great War on the outbreak of which they were placed in the cellars of the Leipzig Museum, where they remained for five years (1920)

Robert Rivière and Son · [London] : Robt. Rivière & Son · leaf 102

An illustration from Examples of bookbinding executed by Robt. Rivière & Son : exhibited at the Leipzig Exhibition in 1914 for a few weeks prior to the Great War on the outbreak of which they were placed in the cellars of the Leipzig Museum, where they remained for five years, 1920, leaf 102
redlevant morocco with a rich border consisting of flowersand leaves and interlaced strapwork inlaid in various colours. The fly-leaves are of green levant morocco, with anarrangement of straps inlaid in red and blue, forming a 32 design in each corner, in which a decorative treatment offlowers is… … Illustration 30 33 PAUSANIAS. Aldus. 1516. (One of the first books to beprinted in Greek.) Bound in Brown Levant Morocco,gilt edges, and decorated in rich Grolier style. See illustration No. 30. 34 THE WOOD BEYOND THE WORLD. WilliamMorris. Printed on Vellum. Kelmscott Press. Boundin Olive-Green…

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