A Collection of Facsimiles From Examples of Historic or Artistic Book-Binding: Illustrating the History of Binding as a Branch of the Decorative Arts (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The oldest known examples in Western Europe of decorative binding in leather, have been ascertained by mr.'weale to belong to England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The ornamentation was effected by means of metal stamps cut with rude designs in which the rose was a favourite figure and impressed forcibly in blind-tooling (o fers froz'ds, the French call it). In France and the Low Countries, the progress of the same method was probably contemporaneous; for.

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