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 26
poison. Facing thisis a well-conceived border, at the foot of which will be seena partly nude figure cutting the thread of life. On page 148 is a particularly beautiful illuminatedinitial letter, and on page 152 a striking miniature repre-senting Romeo finding the apparently dead Juliet.… … Illustration 3 II We then turn to page 166, in which will be found asymbolical treatment of Sorrow in the miniature of the nun,and the two draped figures offering burning incense to thememory of Romeo and Juliet, surmounted at the top ofthe page by two hearts, pierced, as symbolizing the…
Bookbinding · Leather bindings (Bookbinding)
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