Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Binding by Ramage, late 19th or early 20th century

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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