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Modern bookbindings, their design and decoration (1906)

Prideaux, S. T. (Sarah Treverbian) · London : A. Constable and Co. · leaf 198

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signs of his clothbindings, which he devised in conjunctionwith his artist cousin, John Leighton,known as Luke Limner, a good instancebeing the pleasant and appropriate coversfor Mrs. Jamesons Legends of the Madonnaand Legends of the Monastic Oi^ders. Thetwo Leightons, father and son, thus… … EDITION BINDING 117 colours. It was natural that such aninvention should lead to abuse; and in ashort time, unfortunately, there was somuch o^ilt ornament that a strong: reactiontook place, and, while cloth as a materialfor the cover continued to be used, it waseither left plain or had a single…

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