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 173
4.—Many English binders adopted the German plan ; some modified it bydividing the field into four triangular compartments, sometimes left plain, sometimesornamented with small dies. All these plans were subject to modification. The tools employed to ornament leather bindings were, so far as we… … !.— GERMAN PLAN. FIG. 4.—ENGLISH ADAPTATION OF GERMAN PLAN. 2. The roll, a cylinder mounted on a handle so as to allow it to revolve. This tool was much used in the sixteenth century. It may have been suggested bythe repetition of small stamps placed in juxtaposition. The designs upon rolls were…
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