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The decorative art of embossed book binding was a small but significant facet of the Gothic Revival. Mrs Jamieson studies the social and technological conditions which made possible the mass-production of handsomely bound books and analyses recurrent motifs and styles of binding of a number of books produced in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.Jamieson, Eleanore is the author of 'English Embossed Bindings, 1825-1850', published 1972 under ISBN 9780521096935 and ISBN 0521096936.
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