A lecture on bookbinding as a fine art : delivered before the Grolier Club, February 26, l885. With sixty-three illustrations / by Robert Hoe.

  • Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909.
Date:
1886
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Credit: A lecture on bookbinding as a fine art : delivered before the Grolier Club, February 26, l885. With sixty-three illustrations / by Robert Hoe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    39. H. Walpole. The Misterious Mother; A Tragedy. 8°, printed at Strawberry Hill, 1768. Orange morocco, bound by Roger Payne. 40. Chaos del Tri per Uno. 120, Venegia, 1527. Orange morocco by Roger Payne. 41. Inside Cover of Volume shown on Plate. (Chaos del Tri per UNO, 1527). 42. Rogerus Payne, Natus Vindefor: MDCCXXXIX; denatus Londin: MDCC- LXXXXVII. 43. De Foe. Robtnson Crusoe. 180, London, 1820. Binding in red morocco by Charles Lewis. 44. HiSCHYLUS. 12°, Venice, Aldus, 1552. Red morocco by Charles Lewis. 45. Reynard the Fox. 8°, London, 1853. Binding by F. Bedford. 46. Francis Quarles. Divine Poems. 120, London, 1714. Binding by Riviere. 47. Dante. 8°, Florence, 1544. Brown morocco by Riviere. 48. Bitaube. Joseph. 8°, Paris, 1786. Green morocco by Bozerian. 49. Boileau. Qiuvres. 5 vols. 8°, 1747. Red morocco by Lefebure. 50. Illuminated MS. on Vellum. 40, 16th century. Red morocco by Thouvenin. 51. Inside of Cover of Book shown in Plate 50. 52. Speculum Humana Vit^e. 120, Paris, 1542. 53. Hor^e. French MS., 16th century, upon vellum, with miniatures and borders. 40. 54. Perefixe. Histoire du Roy Henry le Grand. 120, Amsterdam, Elze- vier, 1661. Olive morocco by Capd. 55. La Fable de Psyche. Figures de Raphael. Folio, Paris, 1802. Red morocco by Petit. 56. Catulle. Poesies. 120, Paris, 1867. Inlaid morocco by Hardy. 57. Romm ant de la Rose. Paris, J. Petit, s. d., circa 1500. Red morocco by Lortic. 58. Illuminated English Book of Hours. Upon vellum, 40, 15th century. Inlaid morocco by Lortic. 59. Histoire de Manon Lescaut. 2 vols., 120, large paper, 1753. 60. Persian MS. 8°, painted Persian binding, executed about 1700. 61. Binding upon a Folio Persian Manuscript. Executed in the late 16th or early 17th century. 62. Dutch Silver Repousse Binding. 17th century. 63. Illuminated MS. upon Vellum. 40,16th century. Old English silver binding applied upon velvet.