Hand-List

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Excerpt from Hand-List: Descriptive of a Collection of Books and Manuscripts of Exceptional Rarity and Importance In a rich and beautiful binding ascribed to samuel browne. The binding of the present volumes is of black morocco, having a panel on either side formed by a plain two line fillet. The centre and comer-pieces occupy almost all the inside space, and the ornament is formed by delicate dotted spiral tools enclosing roses. The exterior of the panel has a rich border of formal tooling with daisies. At the edge of the boards is another richly-tooled border. The back is fully gilt in compartments. During the reign of Charles I the French in¿uence on English bookbinding became very marked, both in the tools themselves and in the method of applying them. The favourite style of earlier reigns had been a panel with solid centre and corner-pieces, and while the idea of large centre and corner-pieces was at first retained they were built up of small delicate tools. A note at the commencement ascribes the binding to Samuel Browne, a well-known Royalist printer and bookseller, who printed many editions of the Royalist publication Eileen Basil ike. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.