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 223
epresented, although perhaps a little too ornate to be quite in good taste,is a marvellous specimen of skilfully applied ornament, reminding us of the lines of oldJohn Taylor, the water-poet :— Flowers, Plants, and Fishes, Birds. Flyes, and Bees,Hills, Dales, Plaines, Pastures, Skies, Seas, Rivers,… … :\KllTC«WEii_ ^Slmc-n-r. ■■- -J-^^.-rr-j.T, ■,»t-j..-.*,is WHITE SATIN BOOK-COVER EMBROIDERED WITH COLOURED SILK, GOLD, SILVER, AND SEED-PEAK IS, DUTCH, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. {From the original in South Kensington Museum.)
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