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 124
and the work is conscientiouslyexecuted; indeed, this is one of the finest specimens of RobertDudleys bindings. In England during the reigns of Edward VI., Mary I., andElizabeth, several great nobles indulged their taste for splendour byfurnishing their libraries with books in elaborately… … DIONIS NIO<EI RERUM ROMANORUM, ETC. In brown leather, with badge of the Earl of Leicester. Plate XIII. PLATE XIII. 27 William Cecil Lord Burleigh, Sir Thomas Wotton, Robert DudleyEarl of Leicester, and Henry FitzAlan Earl of Arundel, are amongthe best known patrons of art and of bookbinding; the…
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