This blue goatskin cover with its red and green onlays, is tooled in gold to an original design based on an Eastern theme. This theme is continued on the turn-ins which are also tooled in gold, this time with green and blue onlays depicting peacock feathers; the central panel of the pastedown is cream watered silk.
The binder's gold tooled stamp, "Bound by Ramage, London", appears towards the lower edge of the right-hand image. In the 19th century binders began to regularly insert an
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