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 127
e Bodleian should be rich in examples ofembroidered bindings. There are some fifteenexamples of the works of learned ladies, toquote Dr. Rawlinsons humorous title upona volume of samplers. The collection is not alarge one, but it is choice, including nearly adozen fine specimens of needlework of… … I. Binding worked by Queen Elizabeth for Queen Catherine Parr. c. 1544.(MS. Cherry 36.) On a groundwork of light blue silk knitted, abraided cross and initials K. P. in silver thread, and at each cornera heartsease.
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