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Identifier: bookses00hornbindingofrich (find matches)
Title: The binding of books; an essay in the history of gold-tooled bindings
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Herbert Percy, 1864-1916 Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James), 1840-1922 Cockerell, Douglas
Subjects: Bookbinding -- History
Publisher: London, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ound in red morocco, and theborders are tooled in gold. It is said to have comefrom the library of Lorenzo de Medici; and its bind-ing was apparently executed at the beginning of thesixteenth century. The characteristics of this Flor-entine manner would be difficult to describe, as theelements of design and the methods of workmanship,which accompany it, differ but slightly, from thoseused by the Venetian binders: but upon a com-parison, the difference between the two manners issufficiently obvious. The binding of a copy of theEnchiridium Grammatices, of Eufrosino Bonini, Flor-ence, 1514, also in the British Museum (C. 66. d. 9.),affords another instance of Plorentine workmanship,unlike either of the foregoing examples. This book,which is figured in Plate IV., is covered in brownmorocco ; and bears a cameo in high relief of JuliusCaesar, repeated on either cover, and sunk into theboards, which are of wood, and of an unusual thick-ness. By this device, the projecting surfaces of the IV.
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ONOSANDER BINDING.

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