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 222
p, and, on the reverse, Abraham in the actof sacrificing his son. The Patriarch is attired in a large wig and falling collar of theperiod of Charles 11. This volume was purchased from Thorpe, the bookseller, in whosecatalogue for 1832 it is priced at five guineas, and described as said to be bound… … BOOK-COVER EMBROIDERED UPON WHITE SATIN, WITH A PORTRAIT OF CHARLES I. {From a Book of Psalms, 1643, in the British Museum.) Plenty adorn the sides, and the panels are framed in raised work of gold and silverwire, purl and thread. Lord Bacon, it is thought, delighted to place some of his books in…
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