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 228
r some years after his death.He was the friend of Jean Grolier, the French Minister of the Milanese, who visitedVenice in 1512, and of Thommaso Maioli—two of the most famous book-lovers theworld has known. Aldus appears to have sold his books in bindings of vellum or leather, usuallyquite plain,… … VHL4*C>! • VENETIAN GOLD-TOOLED COMMERCIAL BINDING, EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY. {Diagram from an example in the Bodleian Library?) intended for his friends and patrons, the leather or vellum received an adornment ingold-tooling. His earliest bindings had gold-tooling upon them. The example here…
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