. Historic bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : with reproductions of twenty-four of the finest bindings. binding is ascribedto the nuns of Little Gidding. How much probability there isin the supposition it would be hard to determine. The binding on The Whole Law of God, now preservedin the curious library of St. Johns College, is in green velvet,ornamented with gold stamping in the usual Little Gidding whole subject of Little Gidding binding has received attentionat the hands of a painstaking modern bibliographer who has publishedthe result of his researches quite recently. o
. Historic bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : with reproductions of twenty-four of the finest bindings. binding is ascribedto the nuns of Little Gidding. How much probability there isin the supposition it would be hard to determine. The binding on The Whole Law of God, now preservedin the curious library of St. Johns College, is in green velvet,ornamented with gold stamping in the usual Little Gidding whole subject of Little Gidding binding has received attentionat the hands of a painstaking modern bibliographer who has publishedthe result of his researches quite recently. o PLATE XXIII. THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. Lond. : by R. Barker and the Assignes of John Bill. 1639. THE HOLY BIBLE. Lond. : by R. Barker, and the Assignes of John Bill. 1640. THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMES: Collected into English Meeter, by T. Sternhold, I. Hopkins, and : by R. Bishop, for the Company of Stationers. 1640. 8vo. White satin, embroidered in gold and silver thread, and SILKS OF VARIOUS COLOURS. C. 1640. [Arch. Bodl. D. subt. 75.]Measurements: sides, 7-J in. x 6 in.; back, 7^ in. x 2 he exquisite beauty of this piece of needleworkmust be seen to be adequately appreciated;the colouring is so brilliant and the shadingso delicate that no photographic reproductioncan convey a complete idea of the original. Upon a ground of white satin of wonderfultexture are worked ornaments of the mostelaborate description; large oval panels, emblematical of Peace andPlenty, occupy the centre of each side; the panels are framed inraised gold and silver embroidery, and at the corners of the sidesand upon the back of the binding are birds, fruits, flowers, andinsects worked in the finest shaded floss-silk. The poet JohnTaylor may have had a binding thus ornamented before him whenhe wrote : — Flowers, Plants, and Fishes, Beasts, Birds, Flyes, and Bees ;Hills, Dales, Plaines, Pastures, Skies, Seas, Rivers, Trees :Theres nothing neere at hand, or farthest sought,But with the n
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