Book Decoration
In Black and White, which is chiefly employed, the designs may be in tone or line with suggestion of rotundity or relief; or line decoratively employed, according to subject, or purely decorative.
The same applies to renderings in colour. Designs for covers are controlled by the processes involved, whether printed, stamped or tooled.
No. 268. Mosaic Borders.
A. From Carthage. B. & C. Withington, Gloucester.
No. 269. Mosaic Border, Roman.
No. 270. Roman Mosaic. Woodchester, Gloucester.
No. 271. Roman Mosaic. Treatment in Light and Shade suggestive of relief. (Photo: V & A Museum).
No. 272. Tooled Bookbinding in Leather.
Repetition due to tools or stamps.
(Photo: V & A Museum).
No. 273. Modelled Plaster, shewing relatively large ground area.
(Photo: V & A Museum).
No. 274. Wood Carving. Grinling Gibbons.
Attention devoted to detail with elimination of ground.
(Photo: V & A Museum).
No. 275. Wood Carving. French, Louis XIV.
(Photo: V & A Museum).