Binding for “The Art of Illumination and Missal Painting” by Henry Noel Humphreys (original) (raw)

Binding for “The Art of Illumination and Missal Painting”

Henry Noel Humphreys

1849

White kidskin, with 4 royal blue paper onlays and 1 chromolithographic paper onlay on front cover with gilt-stamped ruled borders, gilt floral ornamental surround, & blind-stamped ruled onlay with floral and foliate decorations, banners with illustrators' names Girolamo Libri / Ion Sifrewas / Ion Sifrewas / Isrl vn Mechenem Lucas von Ieyden / Iean Fouquet / Civlio Clovio vignette of lilies, and titling banners 'The Art of Illumination'; rear cover repeating gilt-stamping and blind-stamping from front, except all executed in blind-stamp; spine with gilt-stamped titling 'The Art of Illumination'

182 x 120 x 16 mm.

Photograph and text from The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings, 1815-1915

With thanks to Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Lervin