Byways among English books / by Cyril Davenport.

  • Cyril James Humphries Davenport
Date:
1927
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Byways among English books / by Cyril Davenport. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gable form. So that Cobden-Sanderson’s charming bind¬ ings show most tasteful and decorative arrangement of cleverly designed stamps, almost always floral, and, more¬ over, the sides of his bindings often show very decorative lettering upon them, and this is a revival of an old form Fig. 30.—Gold-tooled binding in pale green smooth morocco. By T. J. Cobden-Sanderson which was used when books used to be kept flat on their sides. In a copy of Tennyson’s In Memoriam, in which he mentions the “ grassy barrows of the happier dead,” which was bound by Cobden-Sanderson, he has taken this line as a text and used daisies as the main motive of his finish-