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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 16

An illustration from The Spencer Collection of modern book bindings, 1914, leaf 16
ooks; to exhibit in salons ofhis own; and, generall3^ was one to bereckoned with. The whole period is dis-tinguished by his ambition to surpass andto obtain recognition. Men trained in therendering of the archaeological styles, past-masters in the art of gilding, like thosewhose works are in the… … BINDING BY CANAPE. 1909 (l.KS KRINNVES, BY I.F.CONTF. 1>K I.ISI.F.) THE SPENCER COLLECTION mony between the cover and the book ex-tended even to materials and methods ofworkmanship, as for instance — an ex-treme one — in the Aurora Australis ofthe Spencer Collection, for which the woodof a…

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