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 217
ctors preferred to place their coat-of-arms, emblazonedin proper colours, upon the edges of their books, as may be seen in Worcester CathedralLibrary, where some of the volumes bear the arms of Bishop Babington. Variouselaborate methods of ornamenting the edges after they had been gilded were,… … DOUBLE BOOK : TWO BOOKS IN ONE BINDING (EACH OPENING THEREVERSE WAY TO THE OTHER), SIDES AND BACK EMBROIDERED,EDGES GAUFFERED. NEW TESTAMENT AND PSALMS, 163O. (British Museum.) ORNAMENTED EDGES. 167 Pictures were at times painted upon the edges of books. There is a completesixteenth-century…
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