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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 90

An illustration from Historic bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : with reproductions of twenty-four of the finest bindings, 1891, leaf 90
he block; in form the badge issomewhat unusual, the flower springs from a long stem with leaves.In the centre is a portcullis of sixteen openings, from the uppercorners of which two chains hang down reaching to the pomegranate.Below is the pomegranate set upon a short thick stem from whichtwo… … %S % > Mtiwf iwl kl£*> LATIN EPIGRAMS. M.S. ON VELLUM. XVI™ CENTURY. In brown leather, stamped and gilt. Plate VII. PLATE VII. 15 stamps were of wood and not of metal. The stamping upon theleather is in intaglio, and the gold-leaf would be applied after thefirst stamping, in the manner still…

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