A history of the art of bookbinding. With some account of the books of the ancients (1894)
Brassington, William Salt, 1859-1939, Hannett, John, 1803-1893 · London, E. Stock · leaf 102
ern repousse^ the sunk edges being-covered with small leaves, etc. In the centre is a seated figure of Christ, in high relief,the eyes formed by two beads ; and at the four corners arc small squares of champlcvcenamel, in blue, green, and red, added not earlier than the fourteenth century.… … BOOK-COVER OF GOLD AND ENAMEL ADORNED WITH GEMS. GERMAN, I 2TH CENTURY. (From, the original in the Ned!aval Department of the British Museum.) GOLDSMITHS WORK AND ENAMEL. 73 contemporary with the books themselves; and when these covers aspire to the distinctionof works of art formed of costly…
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