Showing posts with label Bindings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bindings. Show all posts

Saturday, 19 February 2011

Beauty of the human hand, part 2(a)/3






















This is a mid-sixteenth century binding in leather with decorative  tooled scroll work on a central oblong panel with a border of small heads and vases. The leather (probably sheep) is glued to wooden boards, and the spine has heavily raised bands.