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Modern bookbindings, their design and decoration (1906)

Prideaux, S. T. (Sarah Treverbian) · London : A. Constable and Co. · leaf 174

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inctvalue. M. Pierre Roche has struck a new notein what he calls la relim^e eglomisee. It iswork done on something of the same linesas that attempted by Mr. Cedric Chivers ofBath. He uses a transparent vellum whichcovers and protects the decoration, whichthus appears, to use his own words, as… … 4S. Bound by Chamboi.le, MODERN FRENCH BINDING 99 but a small number of books for a few dis-tinguished clients, and, notwithstandingtheir success, has, like a true artist, refusedto be drawn into manufacturing them, feel-ing it doubtful whether it is a style thatshould be popularized to any great…

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