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18th century black goatskin binding, with gilt tooling in a "cottage roof" design on covers. Marbled endpapers. Bookblock edges in gilt.

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.

16th century English panel stamped calf binding over wooden boards. Upper cover panel with emblems of the passion and inscription "Redemptoris mundi arma" ; on the lower cover a stamp divided into two compartments containing the arms of England and…

18th century Irish binding of gilt tooled red goatskin, with black goatskin inlays. Marbled endpapers. Bookblock edges in gilt.The broad roll-tooled border appears to be one used by the Dublin craftsman known as the 'College Binder', who was active…

16th century blind tooled calf binding over wooden boards, bound at the workshop of Nicholas Spierinck, a Dutch-born binder, who settled in Cambridge early in the 16th century. He remained in Cambridge until his death in 1545, but appears to have…

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…

16th century blind tooled calf binding, bound at the workshop of Garrett Godfrey, a Dutch-born binder active in Cambridge from the early 16th century until his death in 1539. Covers with rolls number 3 and 4 of George J. Gray's, The Earlier Cambridge…

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

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,…

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…