The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 560
ty in decorating the covers of books, either with enamelledpaintings, or with mosaics made of différent pièces inlaid, or with phiingildings stamped on the surface with small irons. It would be impossibleto enumerate the splendid bindings in ail styles that the French bookbindersof the sixteenth… … Fig. 385.-Mark of William Eustace (1512), Bookseller and Binder, Paris. We now see reappearing some plates obtained from hot or cold dies,representing various subjects, and the designs from which they weretaken, reproduced from those that had been in fashion towards thebeginning of the sixteenth…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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