Examples of bookbinding executed by RobtRivière & Son : exhibited at the Leipzig Exhibition in 1914 for a few weeks prior to the Great War on the outbreak of which they were placed in the cellars of the Leipzig Museum, where they remained for five years . green morocco. The fly-leaves have a border of interlaced strapwork,inlaid in green, and enclosed between two bands inlaid inblack. 28 POEMS OF SHAKESPEARE. Vellum Copy. Kelm-scott Press, 1893. Bound in Red Levant Morocco,with Doublures and Silk Flies. The cover (see illustration No. 24) is decorated with panelsformed by the interlacing of bl
Examples of bookbinding executed by RobtRivière & Son : exhibited at the Leipzig Exhibition in 1914 for a few weeks prior to the Great War on the outbreak of which they were placed in the cellars of the Leipzig Museum, where they remained for five years . green morocco. The fly-leaves have a border of interlaced strapwork,inlaid in green, and enclosed between two bands inlaid inblack. 28 POEMS OF SHAKESPEARE. Vellum Copy. Kelm-scott Press, 1893. Bound in Red Levant Morocco,with Doublures and Silk Flies. The cover (see illustration No. 24) is decorated with panelsformed by the interlacing of black inlaid strapwork; in thecentre is an oval shape formed by the continuation of theouter strapping, the centre of which is filled with inlaidroses and leaves springing from heart-shapes. Surroundingthis is a trellis pattern of gold lines, and in the four cornersa similar treatment to the centre oval; the outside border iscomposed of a chain pattern forced up by the introductionof fine pointilld work. The doublures (see illustration No. 25) are of olive-greenlevant morocco, with a diaper design introducing violets andleaves inlaid in original colours, and the whole surroundedby a border of interlaced strapwork between inlaid ribbonsof Illustration 24
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