Bookbindings / en ‘A very unusual binding’: A Remarkable Julius Caesar in ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library /node/2340 ‘A very unusual binding’: A Remarkable Julius Caesar in ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library Jason Morgan Issue number (2021): 16 Notes category Library Antiquarian BT1.127.9 Bookbindings Julius Caesar

This book features tanned red goatskin applied to the boards in a standard form. Into this, however, has been stitched an abundance of gold thread and silver wire, forming a decorative panel design on both the upper and lower boards. The time and expense that the creation of this binding must have incurred mark this book out as a most prestigious item. But why go to all that trouble for a copy of Caesar’s Gallic wars?

 

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