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 229
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… … MAIOI.l BINDING, ITALIAN, EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY, GOLD-TOOLED BINDINGS. 179 smooth dark green morocco, ornamented with gold and blind-tooling. A small copyof Petrarch, printed by Aldus in 1501, now in the Editors collection, appears tobe in a contemporary binding of white vellum, gold-tooled in a…
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