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 172
e leather-workers imitated Arabian models, but after a time the influence of German, especiallyof Swabian, binders made itself felt there until after the sixteenth century, whenOriental designs again prevailed. In Spain the Germans introduced their system ofornamentation, which, however, was… … FIG. I. EARLY ENGLISH PLAN. FIG. 2.—NETHERLANDISH PLAN OF ARRANGEMENT. complete that it cannot be said yet to have recovered the position it held at the endof the twelfth century.1 It is important to know something of the plan or manner of arranging ornamentalstampings adopted by artists in leather…
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