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 19. Illustration 20 25 OLD CHRISTMAS, AND BRACEBRIDGE vols, ist Edition, Illustrated by Caldecott, Bound in Green Levant Morocco, Silk Doublures,and Fly-leaves, solid gilt edges. Decorated (see illustration No. 20) in the centre with anoval containing holly leaves and berries inlaid, surroundedby a panel of int
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 19. Illustration 20 25 OLD CHRISTMAS, AND BRACEBRIDGE vols, ist Edition, Illustrated by Caldecott, Bound in Green Levant Morocco, Silk Doublures,and Fly-leaves, solid gilt edges. Decorated (see illustration No. 20) in the centre with anoval containing holly leaves and berries inlaid, surroundedby a panel of interlaced lines and holly leaves and cornersof mistletoe, with an outside border of ivy leaves andberries. The doublures are of silk and have borders in whichholly leaves and berries are introduced into the corners. 26 ROSALIND AND HELEN, by Percy Bysshe Shelley,i st Edition, 1819. Bound in Dark Blue Levant Morocco,Red Levant Doublures, and Fly-leaves. The design on the cover (see illustration No. 21) is of Flor-entine scrollwork, having in the centre the monogram of theauthor, P. B. S., with a background of fine poinfilU work,and above and below a conventional Florentine lily, inlaidin brown; these are introduced as signifying the purity ofthe two principal charact
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