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Brassington, William Salt, 1859-1939, Bodleian Library · London : Sampson Low, Marston and Co. · leaf 196
ls are framed inraised gold and silver embroidery, and at the corners of the sidesand upon the back of the binding are birds, fruits, flowers, andinsects worked in the finest shaded floss-silk. The poet JohnTaylor may have had a binding thus ornamented before him whenhe wrote : — Flowers, Plants,… … 6A> S^22^£=£aassS2±22£2^S5 BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND HOLY BIBLE. Bound in white satin, embroidered with coloured silks. Plate XXIII. PLATE XXIII. 59 The landscape is the same in both panels, but the colouring andthe figures differ. Upon the verdant bank of a river a femalefigure representing…
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