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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 215

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W>.(k..4£i6.. * VENETIAN GOLD-TOOI.ED 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… … MAI0L1 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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