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Cyril Davenport
English Embroidered Bookbindings
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664628572
Table of Contents
CONTENTS AND LIST OF PLATES
ENGLISH EMBROIDERED BINDINGS By Cyril Davenport.
| CONTENTS AND LIST OF PLATESTable of Contents PAGE | |
| General Introduction, By Alfred W. Pollard. | ix |
| ENGLISH EMBROIDERED BINDINGS By Cyril Davenport.Table of Contents | |
| Chapter I.—Introductory, | 1 |
| PLATES. | |
| 1. Embroidered Bag for Psalms. London, 1633, | 17 |
| 2. Embroidered Cover for New Testament. London, 1640, | 18 |
| Chapter II.—Books Bound in Canvas, | 28 |
| PLATES. | |
| 3. Prayers of Queen Katherine Parr. 13th-century MS., | 29 |
| 4. The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul. MS. by the Princess Elizabeth. 1544, | 32 |
| 5. Prayers of Queen Katherine Parr. MS. by the Princess Elizabeth. 1545, | 33 |
| 6. Christian Prayers. London, 1581, | 37 |
| 7. Psalms and Common Praier. London, 1606, | 38 |
| 8. Bible, etc. London, 1612, | 39 |
| 9. Sermons by Samuel Ward. London, 1626–7, | 41 |
| 10. New Testament, etc. London, 1625–35, | 42 |
| 11. The Daily Exercise of a Christian. London, 1623, | 44 |
| 12. Bible. London, 1626, | 45 |
| 13. Bible, etc. London, 1642, | 48 |
| 14. Bible. London, 1648, | 49 |
| Chapter III.—Books Bound in Velvet, | 52 |
| PLATES. | |
| 15. Très ample description de toute la terre Saincte, etc. MS. 1540, | 52 |
| 16. Biblia. Tiguri, 1543, | 54 |
| 17. Il Petrarcha. Venetia, 1544, | 55 |
| 18. Queen Mary's Psalter. 14th century MS., | 57 |
| 19. Christopherson, Historia Ecclesiastica. Lovanii, 1569, | Frontispiece |
| 20. Christian Prayers. London, 1570, | 59 |
| 21. Parker, De antiquitate Ecclesiæ Britannicæ. London, 1572, | 60 |
| 22. The Epistles of St. Paul. London, 1578, | 63 |
| 23. Christian Prayers, etc. London, 1584, | 65 |
| 24. Orationis Dominicæ Explicatio, etc. Genevæ, 1583, | 67 |
| 25. Bible. London, 1583, | 68 |
| 26. The Commonplaces of Peter Martyr. London, 1583, | 69 |
| 27. Biblia. Antverpiæ, 1590, | 70 |
| 28. Udall, Sermons. London, 1596, | 71 |