Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects (1902)
Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944, Pollard, Alice · London : Methuen and co. · leaf 260
d is theearliest instance of a cameo stamp on any Englishbinding. The only other sixteenth-century English armorialstamps in the collection are two examples of the stampused by William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, one in gold on acopy of the Greek Testament of Erasmus printed at Baselin 1570, the other in… … ELIZABETHAN PORTRAIT-STAMP 248 OLD PICTURE BOOKS binding which entered the Museum with the old RoyalLibrary. In the present collection a little Lyons Virgilprinted by Gryphius in 1571, though with a decorativeinstead of an heraldic stamp, bears the initals, W.P., ofan English owner, a book-plate of…
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