Examples of the Art of Book-binding

Front Cover
B. Quaritch, 1897 - Bookbinding - 172 pages
 

Selected pages

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 34 - Orpheus Britannicus. A collection of all the choicest songs. For one, two, and three voices, compos'd by Mr.
Page 101 - Citron morocco, richly gilt with that pattern of decoration which has always hitherto been considered as marking the ownership of Queen Marguerite (de Valois), the most remarkable lady of her line, who, by marrying Henry of Navarre, became the link between the Valois and the Bourbon dynasties. Mr. Guigard, puzzled like so many others, by the heraldic peculiarity of the centre-piece on the sides, has invented a theory that the real owner of the little volumes which are decorated like this one, was...
Page 20 - A Short Sober Pacific Examination of some Exuberances in, and Ceremonial Appurtenances to the Common Prayer.
Page 152 - Apologie pour Hérodote , ou Traité de la conformité des merveilles anciennes avec les modernes , par Henri Estienne. Nouvelle édition faite sur la première : augmentée de tout ce que les postérieures ont de curieux , et de remarques , par M.
Page 158 - The whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others ; conferred with the Hebrew, with apt Notes to sing them withall.
Page 18 - A RELATION of the CONFERENCE betweene William Lawd . . and Mr. Fisher the Jesnite . . London . . MDCXXXIX.
Page 43 - DRESSES AND DECORATIONS OF THE MIDDLE AGES, from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries. 94 Plates, beautifully Coloured, a profusion of Initial Letters, and Examples of Curious Ornament, with Historical Introduction and Descriptive Text.
Page 61 - Coro-graphica . . de la Nueva Andalucía provincias de Cumana Guayana y vertientes del Rio Orinoco . . 1779.
Page 28 - I, the Prince and Princess of Wales (afterwards George II and Queen Caroline) and their son Prince Frederick.
Page 39 - BUTLER (Samuel). — Hudibras, in three parts, written in the Time of the Late Wars : Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations and a Preface, by Zachary Grey, LLD Adorn'd with a new Set of Cuts (from the designs of Hogarth).

Bibliographic information