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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 169

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of a fine Evangclistarium. The bindingis of the time of Frederick III. (the middle of the fourteenth century). The ornamentsconsist of a lions head in the centre of the board surrounded by golden rays, and havinga lions head in each corner of the square. An arabesque border surrounds the… … WROUGHT SILVER RINDING. (From the original, South Kensington Museum.) - J. II. Middleton, Illumination.: I >ibdins Bib. Dec, ii. 495. Ibid., 492. Dibdens Bib. Tour, iii. 274. SILVER BOOKBINDING. 119 A manuscript office of the Virgin, in the public library at Munich, bears witness tothe custom of…

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