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 . Illustration 17. Illustration 18 23 ENDYMION, by John Keats, ist Edition, 1818. Boundin Dark Blue Levant Morocco, with Doublures andLeather Fly-leaves, top gilt. The design of the front cover (see illustration No. 18) dis-plays a representation of Peonas bower with the recliningfigure of Endymion on a bed of flowers and leaves illustrat-ing t
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 . Illustration 17. Illustration 18 23 ENDYMION, by John Keats, ist Edition, 1818. Boundin Dark Blue Levant Morocco, with Doublures andLeather Fly-leaves, top gilt. The design of the front cover (see illustration No. 18) dis-plays a representation of Peonas bower with the recliningfigure of Endymion on a bed of flowers and leaves illustrat-ing the lines: So she was gently glad to see him laid Under her favourite bowers quiet shade On her own couch, new made of flower leaves. (Book I, lines 436-8.) From the head and feet of Endymion two trees ariseenclosing a full moon in silver with a superimposed figureof the descending moon goddess Cynthia, illustrating thelines: And lo! from opening clouds I saw emerge, etc. etc. (Book I, lines 591-632.) Among the branches of the trees will be seen two whitedoves, the sacred messengers of Venus, suggested by thelines: . . Hast thou sinnd in aughtOffensive to the heavenly powers ? CaughtA Paphian dove upon a message sent? (Book I, lines 508-10.) The design throughout
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