The home library . Fm. 13. of color which characterize the best works of the bestworkmen of the French school—old and new. The silverfiligree covers which have been sometimes put on booksever since the fifteenth century—like the little prayer-book formerly belonging to Elizabeth, Queen of Portugal,of which Fig. 13 is a reproduction—are harsh and hard 76 THE HOME LIBRARY. Fig. 14. when compared with the finer and more appropriateleather bindings of later French artists. Here, for exam-ple, is a copy of Euripides bound for Lorenzo de Medicithe Magnificent, and bearing his monogram (Fig. 14). ON
The home library . Fm. 13. of color which characterize the best works of the bestworkmen of the French school—old and new. The silverfiligree covers which have been sometimes put on booksever since the fifteenth century—like the little prayer-book formerly belonging to Elizabeth, Queen of Portugal,of which Fig. 13 is a reproduction—are harsh and hard 76 THE HOME LIBRARY. Fig. 14. when compared with the finer and more appropriateleather bindings of later French artists. Here, for exam-ple, is a copy of Euripides bound for Lorenzo de Medicithe Magnificent, and bearing his monogram (Fig. 14). ON BOOK-BINDING. 77
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