Antwerp : Plantin-Moretus
Officium B[eatae] Mariæ Virg[inis] nuper reformatum... 1677 - 1907
11.6 x 5.3 x 9.7 cm (book measurement (inventory)) | RCIN 1082348
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Responding to the eclectic mixture of design in the Victorian period and the perceived mechanical artificiality of the industrial revolution, the Arts and Crafts movement of the early twentieth century sought to return to a simpler and more appropriate, individual, style of design. This miniature book is an example of an Arts and Crafts bookbinding. The seventeenth-century text was bound by Thomas Cobden-Sanderson, the founder of the Doves Press and Bindery, in 1907. He described the book’s binding as its ‘wedding garment’. The sheets were bound without trimming: a considerable challenge.
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11.6 x 5.3 x 9.7 cm (book measurement (inventory))