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 160
: sevenimpressions of a rectangular stamp, representing within a large quatrefoil, flanked byfour smaller ones, David crowned, seated with his legs crossed, playing the harp ; oneach side of this figure is a small quatrefoil. Lateral divisions each four circularand three triangular stamps… … STAMPED-LEATHER BINDING. ? LONDON, EARLY I3TH CENTURY. UPON HISTORIA EVANGELICA [EGERTON MS. 272.] (From the original in the British Museum.) ENGLISH STAMPED-LEATHER BOOKBINDING IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY, in Obverse.—Each side has a border formed by the repetition of stamps : eight, nearthe back,…
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