Chapter I: Appendix: Leather Hangings and Furniture 80

NOTE
SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON
LEATHER FOR BOOKBINDING, APPOINTED BY THE COUNCIL
OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, FEBRUARY, 1900 90

INDEX 96

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

FIG. PAGE

1. Tracing-point 20

2, 3. Incising knife used downwards like a pencil 21

4, 5. Incising knife used upwards 22

6, 7. Incising knife held like a graver and pushed forward 23

8. Executing a slanting cut when the edge of the leather
is to be subsequently turned up 24

9. Opener 25

10. Enlarging the outline with the opener 25

11. Slanting cut 26

11a. Showing the difficulty of raising the inner edge _A_ 26

12. Lowering the outer edge with a modeller 29

13. Ball-shaped steel tool with handle 32

14. Position of hands in embossing leather 32

15. Tool for working reed decoration 34

16. Using a hand punch 36

17. Cutting-out knife 40

18. Paring knife 43

19. Paring knife 43

20. Paring leather 44

21. Cutting-out knife 46

22. Cutting-out knife 46

23. Cutting-out knife 46

24. Cutting out inlay 48

25. Using roller to secure adhesion of inlay 51

26. First position of outlining tool 53

27. Second position of outlining tool 53

28. Gouge outliner 56

29. Outlining wheel 56

30. Gouge outliner 56

31. Straight outliner 56

32. Polishing mosaic 57

33, 34. Sticking inlay on morocco ground with tool (Fig. 33)
instead of roller, to avoid crushing the grain 60

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATE _Page_

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