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17th century calf binding. Gilt tooled centrepiece and cornerpieces, with semis of a small leaf shaped tool. Flat spine, gilt tooled. Gauffered bookblock edges. Gilt tooling to board edges. Evidence of ties.

Late 17th century gilt-tooled black goatskin binding. Bookblock edges in gilt. Marbled endpapers. The tools used on this binidng appear to most closely resemble those attributed to the group of binders known as the 'Queens' binders', active in London…

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…

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…

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

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…

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

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.…

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.

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…