. The book, its history and development. ^ over on to the board itself so as to cover up the holesused for the bands. This is called a half-binding. Onthe leather of such half-bindings there is usually someblind tooling, lines or rolls or even small cameo stamps. Mediaeval bindings are commonly provided with original reason of this was to help to keep the velUim. Fig. 45.—Half-bound book. EOLLS, BOOKS AND BOOKBIXDINGS. 45 leaves flat, but of course artistic binders saw that claspsmight be made very ornamental, and so many of them have survived as ornamental adjuncts to a bi
. The book, its history and development. ^ over on to the board itself so as to cover up the holesused for the bands. This is called a half-binding. Onthe leather of such half-bindings there is usually someblind tooling, lines or rolls or even small cameo stamps. Mediaeval bindings are commonly provided with original reason of this was to help to keep the velUim. Fig. 45.—Half-bound book. EOLLS, BOOKS AND BOOKBIXDINGS. 45 leaves flat, but of course artistic binders saw that claspsmight be made very ornamental, and so many of them have survived as ornamental adjuncts to a bindinguntil the present day, although there is no necessity forthem. Bosses in the centre and at the corners of mediaevalbindings were of structural use, as they protected theactual boards of the book from wear. In early days bookswere kept upon their sides and pro-l)ably had flat boards between eachvolume. So the bosses took thewear and preserved the of the mediaeval bosses andcorners have ornamental settings;they are generally of brass, butsometimes of silver or wood. Thetitles of such books were sometimeswritten on the front edges and some-times on a slip of paper fastenedunder horn on the upper board, andin the late fifteenth century they were sometimes letteredin gold or blind, also on the boards. It happened that the art of Byzantium was in itsprim
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