A collection of facsimiles from examples of historic or artistic book-binding, illustrating the history of binding as a branch of the decorative arts

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 1. Gothic bindings stamped in blind-tooling -- 2. Modern European bindings : early examples derived from Saracenic models -- 3. Cameo-bindings of the sixteenth century -- 4. Bindings of the sixteenth century in transitional style -- 5. Bindings executed for Jean Grolier -- 6. Bindings done for Henri Deux and Diane de Poitiers -- 7. Grolieresque bindings : Italian -- 8. Grolieresque bindings : French -- 9. Grolieresque bindings : English -- 10. Grolieresque bindings : Flemish and German -- 11. Veneto-Lyonese, stamped in the centres or corners with Grolieresque patterns -- 12. French bindings by the Eve family -- 13. Foreign imitations of Eve bindings -- 14. Bindings by Le Gascon -- 15. Foreign imitations of Le Gascon -- 16. French binding in the seventeenth century : Bourbon and Le Gasconesque -- 17. English binding in the seventeenth century -- 18. French binding, late seventeenth and early eighteenth century : Boyer and Du Seuil -- 19. French binding, eighteenth century : Padeloup, Derome -- 20. English and Scottish binding in the eighteenth century -- 21. Modern French imitative binding -- 22. Book-covers of peculiar fabric Library's copy lacks the original cover