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 170
of binding books in silver, with coloured inlaid ornaments, up to the year 1574,which date it bears. This library contains also four splendid folio volumes, the text ofthe Seven Penitential Psalms, which exhibit extraordinary proof of the skill of thewriter, musician, painter, and bookbinder. Of… … SILVER BINDING PIERCED AND ENGRAVED, GERMAN, EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. (From the original at South Kensington Museum.) and complete, and stamps Gaspar Ritter as one of the most skilful artists of thesixteenth century.1 The practice of placing devotional books in bindings of wroughtsilver was…
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