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 153
from a small T shapedornament composed of small pearls. The photograph being muchreduced conveys but a slight idea of the importance of thismagnificent bookbinding. PLATE XVIII. LA SECONDE SEMAINE OU ENFANCE DU MONDE,DE G. SALUSTE SEIGNEUR DU BARTAS. A Paris, a lOlivier de P. lHuillier, rue S.… … i|T is a significant fact that the Bodleian Librarypossesses few examples of bookbindings executedfor great French amateurs of the 16th and 17thcenturies, but that those few are truly representa-tive specimens, the best and finest of their kind.A prolonged search has not disclosed a solitarybinding…
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