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18th century Scottish red goatskin binding. Gilt tooling to covers, in a herringbone style characteristic of Scottish bookbindings of the 18th century. With further gilt tooling to spine, board edges and turn-ins. Bookblock edges in gilt. Marbled…

17th century black goatskin binding. Gilt tooling to covers, with the Royal Arms as a gilt-stamped centrepiece. This stamp matches Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland (1600 - 1649), Stamp 15a in the British Armorial Bindings database,…

17th century English black goatskin binding tooled in gilt and blind (this style is sometimes referred to as 'semi-sombre'). This binding bears a resemblance to British Library, Davis 185: Book of Common Prayer, 1662, which is attributed to the…

20th century red goatskin binding signed Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London. Gilt tooling to board edges and turn-ins, and lettering in gilt on spine. Bookblock edges in gilt.

18th century English red goatskin binding. Gilt tooling in a cottage-roof style, with black leather inlays on covers. Further gilt tooling to spine, bookblock edges and turn-ins. Black leather spine labels with tooling in gilt. Marbled endpapers.…

17th century gilt tooled calf binding. Flat spine with repeated gilt stamped roses. Gilt tooling to board edges. Gauffered bookblock edges.

The whole booke of Psalmes and The New Testament of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ bound dos-a-dos in a contemporary needlework cover, and contained in an embroidered bag. Embroidered bindings were particularly fashionable in England during the…

18th century gilt tooled red goatskin binding. Bookblock edges in gilt. Marbled endpapers.

17th century calf binding. Gilt tooled centrepiece incorporating the coat of arms of the City of London; cornerpieces of interlacing designs; and semis of a small floreate cross - all within a double filleted gilt tooled frame. Flat spine, gilt…

17th century calf binding, bound at the workshop of Henry Bluett of Oxford (active 1610-1633), as described in, Goldschmidt, Gothic and Renaissance Bookbindings, no.267: the covers have a rolled frame, with triple filleted lines either side. The…