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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 93

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John Dome, Booksellerin Oxford, 1520, Mr. F. Madan has directed attention to the striking fact inconnection with the studies of the University, that most of the grammaticalworks then sold were written by John Stanbridge and Robert Whitinton, bothconnected with Magdalen College Grammar School. PLATE… … he early history of English gold-tooled bindingis lost in obscurity, but it may be takenbroadly that many of the so-called Englishbindings are in reality French or Dutch: thismay be proved in some cases by a compari-son being made between known specimens ofParisian binding and the so-called…

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