Decorative bookbinding in Ireland ... / by Sir Edward Sullivan, bart., bookbinder to ye Sette.

  • Edward Sullivan
Date:
1914
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Decorative bookbinding in Ireland ... / by Sir Edward Sullivan, bart., bookbinder to ye Sette. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    18/56 (page 12)
    aware, is Mr Weale, the author of the ofi&cial Catalogue of the Bookbindings and Rubbings in the National Art Library in the South Kensing- ton Museum, published in 1898: but, laborious worker as he was on the earlier history of English Bookbinding, his remarks on the Irish work with which he was acquainted are contained in a very few lines. Some good bindings were produced at Dublin in the eighteenth century, generally in red morocco inlaid with a lozenge-shaped piece of white leather, richly tooled. At one time the Dublin stationers were highly re- puted for their vellum bindings ” And so begins and ends his reference to Irish biblioi>egistic achievement. This scanty tribute to Irish work is all the more remarkable in so much as the South Kensington Museum was one of the very first of the public institutions in this country to exhibit in its cases a small but very creditable collection of Irish bindings. I may here mention, as an aside, that Mr Weale’s allusion to Dublin vellum bindings ”