. The book, its history and development. ornamented withcut work. The outlines of the designs are cut with a sharpsmall knife held slantingl^y,and afterwards worked intoshajoe with blunted designs upon thesebindings are often veryfine, and the workmanshipis most skilled and effec-tive. The earliest exampleI know of is elaboratelyornamented on the upperboard with a groundworkof floral scrolls, and hasin the centre the Austriancoat-of-arms supported onan eagle, which is stainedblack. On a scroll abovethe eagle are the words Fridericus rex, etc., 1451 and below it in a long panelthe let
. The book, its history and development. ornamented withcut work. The outlines of the designs are cut with a sharpsmall knife held slantingl^y,and afterwards worked intoshajoe with blunted designs upon thesebindings are often veryfine, and the workmanshipis most skilled and effec-tive. The earliest exampleI know of is elaboratelyornamented on the upperboard with a groundworkof floral scrolls, and hasin the centre the Austriancoat-of-arms supported onan eagle, which is stainedblack. On a scroll abovethe eagle are the words Fridericus rex, etc., 1451 and below it in a long panelthe letters AEIOU, standing for the proud mottoAustria est imperare orbi universo. Along the loweredge is cut the name of the binder, Petrus Ligator. Hunting scenes and scenes of religious life are usuallyfound on these early German cut leather bindings, now andthen, as in the case of the splendid sixteenth century copyof Eanierus de Pisas Pantheohqia, now in the British. Fig. 95.—English blind stampedbindinj?. Pvnson, 1499. 198 THE BOOK: ITS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT. Museum, showing a monTv at hisdesk; the borders are ornamented withsmall stamps. Cut leather bindingsare done with consummate skill, andmust alwaj^s have been very costly,so we find that they were, and are,very cleverly imitated by skilfullycut stamps. An example of this isso well done that it has over andEiG. 96.—German cut over again been described as hand leather binding, made ^^ork, but in fact it is only a stamp,lor the Jlimperor ^ Frederick of Austria. German leather workers are still pre- Dated 14ol. eminent in this small cut manner. At the St. Louis Exhibition of 1904, in the German section
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