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English Embroidered Bookbindings

by Cyril Davenport

A history of 1899 of books bound in velvet, silk and canvas worked with needle and thread, many of them made for or by royalty. Davenport looked after bindings at the British Museum. The book belongs to the series Books about Books.

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Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text
Reading time
About 2 hr 5 min
Where to find it
On the Archive shelves
Edition
Project Gutenberg, eBook #17585. In the public domain in the United States.

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