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Title: Examples of bookbinding executed by Robt. Rivière & Son : exhibited at the Leipzig Exhibition in 1914 for a few weeks prior to the Great War on the outbreak of which they were placed in the cellars of the Leipzig Museum, where they remained for five years
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Robert Rivière and Son
Subjects: Bookbinding Bookbinding Leather bindings (Bookbinding)
Publisher: (London) : Robt. Rivière & Son
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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fine pointilU work.In the centre is a sunk panel containing the monogramof the poet, H. W. L. The panel is surrounded by a borderof interlaced strapwork inlaid in two shades of green, andbackground worked up in very fine pointille work to givethe effect of dull gold, and so enhancing the design. The reverse cover is a modification of the front, theouter border being of the same design, but the inner panelis composed of interlaced lines forming twenty-four squares,the central eight being filled with a design of rose leavesand fine pointilld work. The doublures (see illustration No. 12) are in greenlevant morocco, decorated with an oval panel, surrounded bya conventional treatment of a branch inlaid in brown, fromwhich spring the stem, flowers, and leaves inlaid in appro-priate colours, with a background of pointilU work, whichtogether cover the oval, surrounding which is a border treatedin similar manner. The fly-leaves are of plain green morocco with a simplestrapping inlaid in brown.
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