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 99
Annals of the Bodleian, p. 32. t It has been suggested that the initials K. H. = Kateryn Howard. PLATE IX. ARCHITECTURE OU ART DE BIEN BASTIRDU MARC VITRUVE POLLION AUTHEURROMAIN ANTIQUE: MAIS DE LATIN ENFRANQOYS, PAR JAN MARTIN SECRETAIREDE MONSEIGNEUR CARDINAL DE LENON-COURT. POUR LE ROY TRES… … lthough the brilliancy of this binding has beendulled by age, it is still one of the finest of thekind in the Bodleian or in any other Englishlibrary. It is a work of importance, not onlyon account of the size and beautiful design, butalso by reason of the historical associationsconnected with it.…
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