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Louis Kahan
Leighton, John, designer Style Publishers binding Owner Author Bell, Robert Title Golden Leaves from the Works of the Poets and Painters. Date of Publication 1863 [1862] London link (click for a closer look) John Leighton (1822-1912) was the most productive designer of bookbindings of the nineteenth century, his work spanning the years 1845-1902. His father and uncle were in business together as J. and J. Leighton, bookbinders, but John studied first as an artist, writing and illustrating a number of works under the pseudonym Luke Limner. The Great Exhibition of 1851 provided the opportunity for a wider range of work, and during the 1850s and 1860s he produced an astonishing number of binding designs while continuing to publish as an author and illustrator. In his later years he became interested in local government, and his last recorded work is a pamphlet of 1902, proposing improvements to the London underground system.(http://www.bl.uk/collections/early/victorian/pr_leigh.html)
Manuscript painting and bookbinding: Dionysius the Areopagite, WorksManuscript: Constantinople between 1403-1405. Binding: Paris, circa 1360 and end of the 14th, rebuilt in the 17th century. Offered by the Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus to the abbey of Saint-Denis http://www.photo.rmn.fr
Binding Plates: Christ's Majesty, CrucifixionLimoges, 1st quarter of the 13th centuryCopper champlevé, enamelled and gildedGlass beads in the centre, enamelsCl 971 a and b http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/ang/pages/page_id18050_u1l2.htm http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CPicZ.aspx?E=2C6NU001U6LR
This book cover, with Christ surrounded by the symbols of the four evangelists, is a fine example of work by the early Limoges enamellers. ca 1200 http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O120709/gospel-cover/
Gospel of Saint Aure mid-ninth century school of Reims. Binding of ivory and silver.
Prayer book binding  http://www.photo.rmn.fr/ Reliure de livre en argent repercé. Pays-Bas, circa 1680 Book binding silver pierced. Netherlands, circa 1680 http://www.darschot.com
A book that belonged most likely to Kerhoent Olivier , Lord of Kergournadec’h († after 1594), who married Mary Ploeuc , lady Coëtanfao († 1573), “noble and powerful Olivier, lord of Kergournadech, Trohéon, Coatquelfen, as eldest son and heir main noble “(B. Yeurc ‘h). He abandoned weapons of Kerhoent for those Kergournadec’h .(http://blog.pecia.fr/page/5)
Coptic Binding, 7th or 8th CenturyDetached from: The Gospels, in Coptic Illuminated manuscript on vellum Egypt: Monastery of Holy Mary Mother of God, Perkethoout near Hamuli, the Fayum, 7th or 8th century Goatskin over papyrus boards; decorated with onlaid panels of red leather tracery sewn to a gilded leather ground, with plain edgesMS M.569. Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1911
TLIMOGES GOSPEL BOOK COVER Binding: Limoges, France, 13th c., upper cover of a Gospel book, originally on wooden boards, 34x24 cm, with Christ in majesty holding a gospel book within a mandorla, surrounded by the 4 gospel symbols, 3 of them inscribed in red capitals: Iohannes, Marcus and Lucas, between them 4 oval rock crystals, the cornerpieces with tri-partite leaves in champlevé enamel, each with an oval rock crystal, all in colours dark and light blue, green, red and white. The original wooden cover was in the 19th c. substituted with the present copper gilt plate with scrollwork in silver gilt added in the mandorla and outer panels.(http://www.schoyencollection.com/bindings_files/ms4613.jpg)
http://bookbinding.com/short-essays-on-bookbinding/prideaux-articles/metal-in-bound-books
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