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.

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    For all that, I think I can demonstrate that the work that was done in Dublin all through the eighteenth century was in no way inferior, in the matter of artistic feeling, design and general workmanship, to the very best work that was at any time produced in England—and England, as we know, has reason to be proud of its taste and good work in Bookbinding from Tudor days even down to the present. Lx)oked at from a merely national point of view, there is nothing strange or unlikely in such a state of things in Ireland; for anyone conver- sant with the history of art and artistic craft- manship generally is aware that Ireland in the eighteenth century had attained a notable distinction in connexion with such matters as painting, engraving, miniatures, interior de- coration of houses, wax modeUing, and silver chasing; while the Irish medallists, printers (such as Powell and Grierson), sculptors and who has copied them . . . has fallen into the same error; whilst Wanley^ Casely, and others appear never to have had a suspicion of the existence of an ancient school of art in Ireland.” It is satisfactory to know that at the present no such misconceptions are entertained in any quarter.
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