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52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 51: a beautiful 19th century hand-painted and lacquered Qur’an

29 May 2012
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Bindings

I’ve selected one of the true beauties of our collections for the second-to-last binding post of this series. It is no surprise that many of… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 51: a beautiful 19th century hand-painted and lacquered Qur’an

52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 37: a 19th century hand-painted binding

23 February 2012
Bindings

This week’s binding highlight is a small, precious thing found by our reading room staff whilst doing shelf-checking in the Reserve Collection. It is the… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 37: a 19th century hand-painted binding

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