The Spencer Collection of modern book bindings (1914)
New York Public Library. Spencer Collection, Eames, Wilberforce, 1855-1937, Cate, Chester March, Kent, Henry Watson · New York · leaf 12
many little toolsor rolls brought to a heat, or with smallpieces of varicolored leather, inlaid to formthe pattern with the gold. Other ma-terials had been used before and ourbinders could not have been entirely ig-norant of them, — like the ivory covers ofthe Romans, the enameled metal covers… … KINDINC; in MI-.KCll-K(jean F.T IKANNKTIK, BV III hiilll II k i;aiitikr. sr. ) THE SPENCER COLLECTION So early as 1401, the binders of bookswere granted a charter by Charles VI toform a guild, which continued in activeoperation until 1791, although the gildersand forwarders separated, the gilders…
Bookbinding -- France · Bookbinding -- Facsimiles
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![An illustration from XIV [i.e. Vierzehnter] Verbandstag Verband deutscher Juweliere, Gold- & Silberschmiede Strassburg, vom 7.-11. August 1914 : verbunden mit einer Ausstellung alter & neuer Goldschmiedearbeiten und Uhren (1914)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-xivievierzehnter00stra-57-30.webp)