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Gilded and gauffered edge of a laquer volume crafted in the Weischner bookbinding workshop in Jena. (c.1580)
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Gilded and gauffered edge of a laquer volume crafted in the Weischner bookbinding workshop in Jena. (c.1580)
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Poetical Work of Sir Walter Scott
19th century contemporary full morocco leather gilt binding with gauffered gilt page edges
THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. (London: Robert Barker, 1640) and by the assigns of John Bill, 1640
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THE WHOLE BOOKE OF PSALMES, collected into English meter by Thomas Sternhold [et al.] (London: imprinted by M.F. for thje Company of Stationers, 1641)
Decorative woodcut title border, printed music. Contemporary English needlework binding, sides and back decorated with a floral pattern worked in colored silks, gilt wire and sequins, gilt-, gauffered- and painted-edges, remains of tan silk ties, in a red cloth drop-box; corners and edges worn.
[from a Sootherby’s auction catalog, and by the Assigns of John Bill, 1640]
THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING WITH PORTRAITS by Robert Browning, 1812-1889. (London: Ballantyne, Hanson: 1899) Art binding in red morocco with gilt design of interweaved stems, flowers, and leaves. Gilt edges, gauffered with watercolor paintings of ships, a garden, and an aqueduct in arabesques by Fazakerley. with fore-edge and embossed cut edges.
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A beautiful selection of books with fore-edge paintings and gauffered edges.
THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING (London: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., 1899)
Red morocco art binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Gilt and gauffered edges, and fore-edge paintings by Fazakerley.
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19th century binding with gauffered gilt page edges
The edges of a book, usually gilded, which have been decorated further by means of heated finishing tools or rolls which indent small repeating patterns