Cloth casing, with an elaborate gilt and polychromatic inlay.

Ernest Griset (1844-1907)

1867

Gilt and coloured ink blocking on embossed blue cloth

10¾ x 8 inches

This design, which repeats the illustration on p. 31, is a good example of a trade-binding that uses one of the illustrator’s designs, and is only by him insofar as it repeats some of his work [continued below].

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