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 280
rnamented with their arms and devices painted in sunkpanels. There are two examples in the British Museum. One, upon a sixteenth-centurymanuscript, relating a grant of land made by the Duke of Urbano, is an exact copy ofOriental work ; the other is a Venetian binding upon a copy of the Statutes… … PORTRAIT OF JOHN DAY, PRINTER ANDBOOKBINDER. 228 A HISTORY OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING. Queen Elizabeth are painted upon each cover, the surrounding border being delicatelytooled and the corners adorned with heavy stamps. Besides these special bindings of foreign character Elizabeth possessed…
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