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Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![550 551 5d2 553 Green (J. R.) A Short History of the English People, 4 vol. coloured and other plates, half calf gilt 1892 Twamley (LL. A.) The Romance of Nature, coloured plates, original roan gilt, worn, 1836; Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, coloured plates, original half roan gilt, back defective, n. d.; and 3 others (5) FOLIO. Braue. EnauisH. GENEVAN VERSION, margins of three leaves renewed, ruled in red throughout, CONTEMPORARY RED VELVET BINDING covered with needlework in silver thread over silk, a rose in the centre of each side surrounded by an arabesque design introducing rose leaves, buds and other roses im the corners of the panel round which is a border of similar design; panelled back with flewrs de lys and roses; sides and back lard down on modern red velvet, old ink-stain on back, silver thread a little worn and bosses from centre of some of the roses miss- ing, but generally in good condition; sold as a binding, not sub- ject to return C. Barker, 1577 “2 A VERY BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF NEEDLEWORK BINDING “traditionally described as the work of Queen Llizabeth. Formerly in the Duchess of Portland’s Museum, from whence it passed through the Duke of Sussex’s Library (lot 1441) to William Pickering, who sold it to the grandfather of the present owner. In Anderson’s “ Annals of the British Bible,” vol. ii, p. 346 occurs the following: “Certainly the Geneva Verson in folio of this very year 1577 had been presented to her [Queen Elizabeth] and as certainly the covers were embroidered by Her Majesty’s own hand. This identical book was formerly in the Duchess of Portland’s Museum and it is now in the Sussex Library.” The volume is also described in Strutt’s Antiquities, vol. II, p. 89. . The design, material and workmanship of this binding are very similar to those of the binding of a copy of “* Orationis Dominicae Explicatio,” Geneva, 1583 in the British Museum (plate XXV in W. Y. Fletcher’s “ English Bindings in the British Museum).” This volume, too, has always been said to have belonged to Queen Elizabeth. All English embroidered bindings of the Tudor period are very rare and specimens associated with royalty are almost unknown outside the national collections. [See ILLUSTRATION. | Dandy’s Toilette, etc. 40 coloured plates, some stained and margins ‘Ne](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31650661_0123.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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