The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times by WR Symms (1860).
From the days when blocking was an art. One of a number of lavish board designs which can be found at Fromoldbooks.org.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The book covers archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Decorated Russian book covers
• The Hetzel editions of Jules Verne
Fantastic, I am a big fan of blocking.
This website is amazing as well, so many examples of great covers
http://bindings.lib.ua.edu/index.html
Thanks for featuring this image from my Web site.
A minor note – it’s actually Tymms rather than Symms; my fault, I made a mistake
when I first transcribed it!
Liam