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)
Excerpt from A Collection of Facsimiles From Examples of Historic or Artistic Book-Binding: Illustrating the History of Binding as a Branch of the Decorative Arts 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 ...
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Excerpt from A Collection of Facsimiles From Examples of Historic or Artistic Book-Binding: Illustrating the History of Binding as a Branch of the Decorative Arts 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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