A history of the art of bookbinding : with some account of the books of the ancients (1894)
Brassington, William Salt, 1859-1939, editor, Hannett, John, 1803-1893 · London : E. Stock · leaf 207
ed by the ladies of the period,especially, it is said, by the industrious sisters of Little Gidding. A grotesque style of embroidery arose in the reign of James I., known as embroidery on the stump: Little stuffed figures of people in the costume of the period were stitched on to a flat surface ;… … BINDING EMBROIDERED WITH SILVER AND GOLD PURL. {South Kensington Museum.) EMBROIDERED BOOKBINDINGS. 171 had its origin in Germany ; and though thoroughly inartistic in principle, some foreignexamples are attractive, but the English ones are without a redeeming quality. A typical example is…
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