MAKE A MEME View Large Image This design, completely created with roll tools was common to the period 1530-1630 in England. The book is bound in calf over wooden boards, with two clasps at the fore-edge; the catchplates on the lower cover in the English tradition. The ...
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Keywords: bookbinding historic antique book binding This design, completely created with roll tools was common to the period 1530-1630 in England. The book is bound in calf over wooden boards, with two clasps at the fore-edge; the catchplates on the lower cover in the English tradition. The metal centrepiece and corner pieces feature raised bosses, and the spine has a later-added gold-tooled red goatskin label. Raphael Holinshed, The firste volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande (At London: Imprinted for Iohn Harrison, 1577) Vol.1. qREng HOLI First 1577a. This design, completely created with roll tools was common to the period 1530-1630 in England. The book is bound in calf over wooden boards, with two clasps at the fore-edge; the catchplates on the lower cover in the English tradition. The metal centrepiece and corner pieces feature raised bosses, and the spine has a later-added gold-tooled red goatskin label. Raphael Holinshed, The firste volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande (At London: Imprinted for Iohn Harrison, 1577) Vol.1. qREng HOLI First 1577a.
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