Modern bookbindings, their design and decoration (1906)
Prideaux, S. T. (Sarah Treverbian) · London : A. Constable and Co. · leaf 166
xecution, which, according to Frenchstandards, left something to be desired inthe early days of his rather too exuberantfancy. Last year he held a special exhibi-tion in New York, showing some seventyspecimens in which his decorative skill wasextensively represented. His taste in colourmay seem… … MODERN FRENCH BINDING 95 the best traditions of decoration in its parti-cular application to binding. The reputation of M. Carayon is basedupon le cartonnage, or casing as we callit, and which is with us an inferior formof binding mainly confined to publisherseditions. In this work the cases or…
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