Les femmes bibliophiles; catalogue of a collection of books bound by famous binders for royal and distinguished ladies from Marguerite de Valois to the Empress Eugénie (1919)
J. Pearson & Co · London : J. Pearson & Co. · leaf 73
M^^^^Ji^^rdM 21 … LES FEMMES BIBLIOPHILES 21 or green tinge. France, also, at this period favoured bindings with very little tooling, atany rate upon the outsides. In England, on the contrary, very lavish gilding and compli-cated designs were the rule, and the effects were heightened with inlays of coloured…
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