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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 120

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rder, judging from what is left, consisted ofsmall tablets of cloisonne enamel very rudely executed, the colours being white, lightblue and red, on a blue ground, with spots of orange. Between each enamel wasa square ornament composed of flat slices of garnets formed into patterns by filletsof… … ^§B^ CASE OF THE STOWE MISSAL (UPPER SIDE.){Photographed from the original in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy.) ORNAMENTAL LEATHER BOOKBINDINGS. 83 hemisphere of uncoloured glass, in one case an emerald. Figures of the Evan-gelists at the four corners are late additions, dating probably from…

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