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 238
(From the British Museum.) leave the Land of the nativity of Renaissance gold-tooling and return to France. (1480—1533-; French kings1 and nobles were not backward in following the1 xample of the Treasurer of Outre Seine. Gcoffroy Tory, who designed for Grolicr, ; I he 1 hiel authority upon… … ^6 A HISTORY OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING. was himself a lover of beautiful books and bookbindings. For his own library hedesigned some bindings in which he introduced his well-known device the pot casseor broken vase. A fine example may be seen upon a volume of Petrarch, printed atVenice in 1525, now…
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