. Historic bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : with reproductions of twenty-four of the finest bindings. chiefly gram-matical treatises. Now-a-days these books are seldom to be met with : thosestill in original bindings usually bear stamps of the Royal Arms. Examplesmay be seen on three volumes of Whitintons works, dating from 1516 to1530, now at the British Museum. Johnson, in his account of Wynkyn deWordes press, in the first volume of Typographia, gives a list of many ofWhitintons books. These epigrams, addressed to Cardinal Wolsey, probablyhave not been printed. In a note upon the D
. Historic bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : with reproductions of twenty-four of the finest bindings. chiefly gram-matical treatises. Now-a-days these books are seldom to be met with : thosestill in original bindings usually bear stamps of the Royal Arms. Examplesmay be seen on three volumes of Whitintons works, dating from 1516 to1530, now at the British Museum. Johnson, in his account of Wynkyn deWordes press, in the first volume of Typographia, gives a list of many ofWhitintons books. These epigrams, addressed to Cardinal Wolsey, probablyhave not been printed. In a note upon the Day-book of John Dome, Booksellerin Oxford, 1520, Mr. F. Madan has directed attention to the striking fact inconnection with the studies of the University, that most of the grammaticalworks then sold were written by John Stanbridge and Robert Whitinton, bothconnected with Magdalen College Grammar School. PLATE VIM. VITAE ILLUSTRIUM VIRORUM. A MANUSCRIPTFROM HENRY LIBRARY. Gold-tooled with arms and initials of King Henry VIII. Before 1529. [MS. Bodl. 354.] Measurements: \\\ in. x 9^ in. Bands, he early history of English gold-tooled bindingis lost in obscurity, but it may be takenbroadly that many of the so-called Englishbindings are in reality French or Dutch: thismay be proved in some cases by a compari-son being made between known specimens ofParisian binding and the so-called is also probable that some of the earlygold-tooling done in England came from the hands of foreignworkmen, of whom not a few were Huguenot refugees. That theart of gilding leather was practised in this country at an early datemay also be taken for granted ; but the gold leaf was applied bymeans of mucilage, and not by the mere pressure of heated tools. Thomas Berthelet seems to have been the first bookbinder ofconsequence who introduced gold-tooling into England. Bertheletsperiod extends from about 1530 (in June of that year he publishedcertain proclamations) to 1555, when, acc
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