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16th century Acte concernyng arabesque arms basterde paper Bibliophile Bibliothèque Nationale binders book-covers Bookbinding books bound border Boyet British Museum brown calf Buchbinder Buchbinderei Buchbinderkunst Catherine Catherine de Médicis centre Charles clasps collectors colours contains conteynyng copies corners covered craft crowned day of Marche decoration Derome Diane de Poitiers eche edges edition Edward embroidered embroidery enamelled England English binding engraved Epistolas Evangelia fleurs de lys folio France Gascon gilding gilt Grolier Henri II Illustrated initials interlaced Italian Item delyvered Item vc King's Kinges hyghnes leafe leather Leipzig Lesné London Louis Louis XIII Louis XIV Maioli marbled paper metal monogram morocco motto Nicholas Ferrar ornament Padeloup painted panel Paris Payne pece period Plates of Bindings Printed Book printer Proclamacions Psalter Queen reign Reliure Roger Payne royal Seuil side siècle silk silver specimens stamps statutes stitches style Summa super trade vellum velvet volumes
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Page 283 - Catalogue illustré de la bibliothèque de feu M. le Marquis de Morante, précédé d'une notice biographique par M. Fr. Asenjo Barbieri et de quelques mots sur cette bibliothèque par M. Paul Lacroix.
Page 282 - Matthews (William). Modern Bookbinding practically considered. A Lecture read before the Grolier Club of New York, March 25, 1885. With additions and new illustrations.
Page 135 - Lewis added business qualities which won for him respect as well as admiration. Dibdin says of him: "The particular talent of Lewis consists in uniting the taste of Roger Payne with a freedom of forwarding and squareness of finishing peculiarly his own. His books appear to move on silken hinges. His joints are beautifully squared, and wrought upon with studded gold: and in his inside decorations he stands without a compeer.
Page 185 - Velvet, vj yerdes cremysy figured ; corse of silk, ij yerdes di' and a naille blue silk weying an unce iij q' di'; iiij yerdes di' di' quarter blac silk weying iij unces; laces and tassels of silk, xvj laces; xvj tassels, weying to gider vj unces and iij q' ; botons, xvj of blue silk and gold ; claspes off coper and gilt, iij paire smalle with roses uppon them; a paire myddelle, ij paire grete with the Kinges armes uppon them ; bolions coper and gilt, Ixx ; navies gilt, CCC.
Page 215 - Henrici Octavi, Dei gratia Anglie Francie et Hibernie Regis, fidei Defensoris, et in terra Ecclesie Anglicane et Hibernice Supremi Capitis, tricesimo tercio. In primis, delyvered to my Lorde Chauncellour, the ix"1 day of December, xxa Proclamacons made for the enlargyng of Hatfeld Chace, printed in fyne velyme, at vjd the pece.
Page 187 - Hentzner, a German traveller, who saw this library at Whitehall in 1598, says, that it was well furnished with Greek, Latin, Italian, and French books, all bound in velvet of different colours, yet chiefly red, with clasps of gold and silver; and that the covers of some were adorned with pearls and precious stones.
Page 186 - With that of the boke lozende were the claspes, The margin was illumined al with golden railes, And bice empictured with grassoppes and waspes With butterflies and fresh pecocke tailes, Englored with...
Page 255 - An inquiry into the nature and form of the books of the ancients...
Page 75 - All these books are bound in velvet of different colours, though chiefly red, with clasps of gold and silver; some have pearls, and precious stones, set in their bindings.
Page 115 - Henri de Lome'nie, Count de Brienne, Secretary of State to Louis XIV., and Ambassador at Rome, belonging to his son the late Bishop of Coutance in Normandy.