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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 185

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e at present todiscover whether the stamps bearing distinctive English designs were produced byEnglish or Norman workmen. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Denis Roce, ofRouen, who used a panel with the figures of four saints, did not stamp his name infull upon his bindings. We have elsewhere… … WOOD-CUT FROM CAXTONS THE GAME AND PLAY OF THE CHESS, A.D. I481. CHAPTER XI.1

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