A Collection of Facsimiles from Examples of Historic or Artistic Book-Binding, Illustrating the History of Binding as a Branch of the Decorative Arts by Bernard Quaritch

Originally issued in 11 parts with cover title: Bernard Quaritch’s facsimiles of choice examples of historical & artistic book-binding and of specimens of book-illumination, sec. XV, XVI, XVII. The 8 specimens of book illumination are not included in this volume. They are included as part 1 in “Examples of the art of book-illumination during the Middle Ages”, published between by Bernard Quaritch between 1889-1892

There are two digitized versions of the book. We included both of them below, because the quality may differ from copy to copy.

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