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| [1.] | Blind-stamped leather binding of the Winchester Domesday Book. English, 12th century. | ([Frontispiece]) |
| | Society of Antiquaries, London. |
| [2.] | Casket covered with stamped leather, cuir bouilli. German, 14th century. | [22] |
| | South Kensington Museum. |
| [3.] | Coffret covered with leather, incised, coloured and gilt. French, 14th century. | [24] |
| | South Kensington Museum. |
| [4.] | Casket covered with embossed leather, cuir bouilli. French, early 15th century. | [28] |
| | South Kensington Museum. |
| [5.] | Case of cut and embossed leather, cuir bouilli. Italian, 15th century. | [32] |
| | South Kensington Museum. |
| [6.] | Blind-stamped morocco binding with gilt roundels and coloured cameo design. Celsus. De Medicina. Venice, 1477. Italian, 15th century. | [37] |
| | British Museum. |
| [7.] | Case of cut and punched leather. German, 15th century. | [40] |
| | South Kensington Museum. |
| [8.] | Brown leather binding, cut and engraved, with punched background. German MS. Chronicle of Events. German, 15th century. | [44] |
| | Bodleian Library, Oxford. |
| [9.] | Cover of case for a cup in wood covered with leather, cuir bouilli, cut, embossed, painted and gilt. Italian, about 1500. | [49] |
| | South Kensington Museum. |
| [10.] | Cover of work-box of wood covered with embossed leather, cuir bouilli. German, 16th century. | [56] |
| | South Kensington Museum. |
| [11.] | Powder-flask of wood covered with leather, cuir bouilli, cut and embossed. Italian, 16th century. | [56] |
| | South Kensington Museum. |
| [12.] | Shield of cut and embossed leather, cuir bouilli. Italian, 16th century. | [60] |
| | South Kensington Museum. |
| [13.] | Top of casket covered with brown calf, cut and slightly embossed. By Florence Hornblower. Modern English. | [65] |
| | South Kensington Museum. |
| [14.] | Embossed and punched brown calf binding. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Designed by Mary G. Houston. Modern English. | [66] |
| | South Kensington Museum. |
| [15.] | Mirror case of punched black leather, cuir bouilli. Executed by Miss Casella. Modern English. | [71] |
| | South Kensington Museum. |
| [16.] | Black morocco binding with applied panels of tooled, cut, painted and gilt calf. Le Roman de Tristan et Iseut. Designed by Robert Engels. Modern French. | [74] |
| | South Kensington Museum. |
| [17.] | Binding of stained calf, cut, embossed, tooled and patinated. By Henri Godin. Modern French. | [78] |
| | South Kensington Museum. |
| [18.] | Gold-tooled and inlaid morocco binding. The Letters of Princess Lieven. By S. T. Prideaux. Modern English. | [82] |
| [19.] | Back and seat of chair in cut, embossed and gilt cowhide with punched background. Executed by Rosalie Vigers from a design by Frederick Vigers. Modern English. | [84] |
| [20.] | Embossed calf binding. Book of Common Prayer. Executed by Rosalie Vigers from a design by Frederick Vigers. Modern English. | [86] |