Identifier: examplesofbookbi00robe (find matches)
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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
Illustration 28
Text Appearing After Image:
Illustration 29 3i RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Third Edition1872. Bound in Green Levant Morocco, with Doubluresand Fly-leaves, top edge gilt. The front cover (see illustration No. 28) is decorated in ahighly ornate manner. It has a sunk panel of Oriental ovalshape, in which is depicted a snake entwined in a con-ventional rose tree. The whole of the decoration is inmoulded leather, and considerable ingenuity had to beexercised to produce a snake as near to life as possible.After some trouble a dead one was obtained, and from thisthe reproduction in moulded leather was worked. Sur-rounding the oval is a decorative border consisting of vineleaves and grapes, with closely studded background inpointing work. The reverse side has a similar oval to the front, but inplace of the snake a bird of paradise is introduced, perchedon a branch of an apple tree, the whole being inlaid andmoulded in leather of appropriate colours. The border sur-rounding the oval is made up of passion flowers and leaves

Note About Images