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 221
ieved by the ladies of the period,especially, it is said, by the industrious sisters of Little Gidding. A grotesque style of embroidery arose in the reign of James I., known as embroidery on the stump. Little stuffed figures of people in the costume of the period were stitched on to a flat surface;… … EINDING EMBROIDERED WITH SILVER AND GOLD PURL. {South Kensington Museum.) EMBROIDERED BOOKBINDINGS. 171 had its origin in Germany ; and though thoroughly inartistic in principle, some foreignexamples are attractive, but the English ones are without a redeeming quality. x A typical example is…
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