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 19
es, clad in blak or reed,Of Aristotle and his philosophye,Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay soutrye. In the glass case, on the left of thelibrarians table, anyone who cares to doso may see a book chained, and dad inred, just as described by Chaucer. Oldmonastic libraries were often rich in… … Armorial Stamp on the Bindingsof Sir Kenelm Digbys Books. INTRODUCTION. XV superior kind of leather, dyed a rich red colour, was sometimes usedfor bookbinding, and ornamented with most elaborate stamping,cutting and tooling, similar to a late but very elaborate heraldicexample preserved in one of…
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