Byways among English books / by Cyril Davenport.

  • Cyril James Humphries Davenport
Date:
1927
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Credit: Byways among English books / by Cyril Davenport. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    stamps he used are either in conventional or floral forms and he is said to have cut them in metal himself. The small floral stamps are certainly very well cut and they are perhaps more distinctive of Payne’s minute taste than the conventional ones are, and all of them are skilfully adapted Fig. 24.—Petrarch. Binding by Roger Payne in olive morocco to combination in lines of consecutive ornamentation, or in masses such as are found in corner pieces. Payne has the reputation of having been addicted to drink, but I feel sure that no inebriate could ever have the steady delicacy of touch that Payne had, as his gold tooling is of a remarkably fine technique and accuracy of measurement, even in the smallest detail.