Tag: Armorial Bindings

• Armorial Bindings at the Signet Library: I. Bishop Cesi’s Leslie

  

  I recently had the pleasure of teaching a workshop on descriptive bibliography at the Signet Library, the second I’ve now given there for postgraduates keen to develop their book historical skills.  Last year I had noticed a splendidly bound copy of Bishop John Leslie’s De origine moribus, et rebus gestis Scotorum (Rome, 1578) decorated with what…

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  April 21, 2023

  Bindings, Libraries

  Armorial Bindings, Signet Library