. Historic bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : with reproductions of twenty-four of the finest bindings. RACIONALE DIV1NORUM OFFICIORUM, rose-coloured morocco. riate XXIV. PLATE XXIV. 61 The ornament much affected upon the costly bindings of theend of last century, and the beginning of the present century, is adebased variety of the Louis Quatorze style. A meaninglessassemblage of scrolls, flowers and crumpled conventional shellwork,wrought into all sorts of irregular and indescribable forms withoutexpression, and without individuality, rightly called rococo, that isrockwork-like
. Historic bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : with reproductions of twenty-four of the finest bindings. RACIONALE DIV1NORUM OFFICIORUM, rose-coloured morocco. riate XXIV. PLATE XXIV. 61 The ornament much affected upon the costly bindings of theend of last century, and the beginning of the present century, is adebased variety of the Louis Quatorze style. A meaninglessassemblage of scrolls, flowers and crumpled conventional shellwork,wrought into all sorts of irregular and indescribable forms withoutexpression, and without individuality, rightly called rococo, that isrockwork-like, rocaille. But although this ornament belongs to atime when the true principles of art were not well understood, andart itself was at its lowest decadence, it is remarkable that thetooling is usually beautiful, and the general effect rich and , of course, is due to the skill of the bookbinders, who, in someslight degree, followed the traditions of French binders of an earlierand a better time. Very little need be said of the fine example of 18th centurybinding represented in the illustration. I
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