A binding by Thomas Robert Macquoid for ‘Sabbath Bells Chimed by the Poets’ (original) (raw)

Cloth binding

Thomas Robert Macquoid

1861

Green cloth binding with gilt overlays

9 x 6½ inches

Another of Macquoid’s elegant interlaces, animating the surface of the upper board with swirling tendrils. This is one of several variant bindings – another version was published with a design by W H Rogers (Bell & Daldy, 1856) and a later one (Ward, Lock, & Tyler, circa 1868), by an anonymous hand.

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Photograph by Graham Dry and text by Simon Cooke

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