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Historic bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : with reproductions of twenty-four of the finest bindings (1891)

Brassington, William Salt, 1859-1939, Bodleian Library · London : Sampson Low, Marston and Co. · leaf 109

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hose of his continentalcontemporary. A binding with the Wotton arms, ornamented in a similarmanner to the example before us, is given in Bernard Ouaritchs Facsimiles ofBookbindings. The British Museum Library does not contain an example ofThomas Wottons armorial binding, but a fine specimen bearing… … his example is much larger than the previousbinding, although for the purpose of uniformitythe plate has been reduced in the process ofphotography. The binding has neither inscriptionnor arms whereby it may be identified as theproperty of a particular collector, but it isevident that whoever…

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