This book, from the variety and quaintness of the borders surrounding each page—resembling some of the beautiful early printed Missals—is worthy of the most elaborate binding. Few modern works sustain the character of a rich exterior. This volume, on the contrary, on account of the softness and beauty of the paper, appears to the greatest advantage in the most brilliant covers. Mr. Hotten has just had some copies bound as samples of the artistic beauty which may be displayed in binding.
1. In dark morocco, very plain and neat, with block in the Elizabethan style impressed on the sides, gilt edges, 17s. 6d.
2. In the finest polished gros-grained Levant morocco, the back and sides simply but elegantly gilt, crimson, dark blue, or green, cut from carefully-selected skins, the edges gilt and burnished, 30s.
3. In a very splendid piece of dark blue morocco, admirably polished, the sides and back hand-tooled in gold to a very pleasing and original design of entwined laurel-leaves, the edges gilt, 48s. 6d.
4. In rich brown morocco, blind-tooled and inlaid with red Maltese crosses on the back, and elegant Latin crosses on the sides, all bordered with a fine thread of gold, carmine edges, gauffred with a diaper in gold, 43s.
5. In very choice red morocco, the sides covered with hand-tooling in gold of singular beauty, delicacy, and finish, 55s.
6. Another, in fine open-grain crimson morocco of great beauty, with an inlaid monogram of very artistic design, in dark blue morocco, within a frame, also inlaid in dark blue, ornamented with hand-tooling to a very chaste Italian design, solid gilt edges, 63s. Another, in olive morocco of a very subdued and rare tint, with similar monogram and border, the edges gilt in dull gold, 63s.
7. A very sumptuous specimen of Inlaid Maioli Binding, dark blue morocco, with an elaborate design, inlaid in red and green morocco, defined with gold lines—reproduced from an antique volume of great value, £6 6s.
8. The same design, hand-tooled in gold on dark blue morocco, £3 15s.
9. In the Grolier style, with the peculiar and favourite interlacings carried out in red and green morocco on a dark blue ground, with great precision and good taste, £5 10s.