English Embroidered Bookbindings, by Cyril Davenport

General Introduction, by Alfred W. Pollard

Chapter i: Embroidered Books

1 — Embroidered Bag for Psalms. London, 1633.

2 — Embroidered Cover for New Testament. London, 1640.

Chapter ii: Books Bound in Canvas

3 — The Felbrigge Psalter. 13th-century MS.

4 — The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul. MS. by the Princess Elizabeth. 1544.

5 — Prayers of Queen Katherine Parr. MS. by the Princess Elizabeth. 1545.

6 — Christian Prayers. London, 1581.

7 — Psalms and Common Praier. London, 1606.

8 — Bible, etc. London, 1612.

9 — Sermons by Samuel Ward. London, 1626-7.

10 — New Testament, etc. London, 1625-35.

11 — The Daily Exercise of a Christian. London, 1623.

12 — Bible. London, 1626.

13 — Bible, etc. London, 1642.

14 — Bible. London, 1648.

Chapter iii: Books Bound in Velvet

15 — Tres ample description de toute la terre Saincte, etc. MS. 1540.

16 — Biblia. Tiguri, 1543.

17 — Il Petrarcha. Venetia, 1544.

18 — Queen Mary's Psalter. 14th-century MS.

19 — Christopherson, Historia Ecclesiastica. Lovanii, 1569.

20 — Christian Prayers. London, 1570.

21 — Parker, De antiquitate Ecclesiæ Britannicæ. London, 1572.

22 — The Epistles of St. Paul. London, 1578.(From a drawing).

23 — Christian Prayers, etc. London, 1584.

24 — Orationis Dominicæ Explicatio, etc. Genevæ, 1583.

25 — Bible. London, 1583.

26 — The Commonplaces of Peter Martyr. London, 1583.

27 — Biblia. Antverpiæ, 1590.

28 — Udall, Sermons. London, 1596. (From a drawing).

29 — Collection of Sixteenth-Century Tracts.

30 — Bacon, Opera. Londini, 1623.

31 — Bacon, Essays. 1625.

32 — Common Prayer. London, 1638.

33 — Bible. Cambridge, 1674.

Chapter iv: Books Bound in Satin

34 — Collection of Sixteenth-Century Tracts.

35 — New Testament in Greek. Leyden, 1570.

36 — Bible. London, 1619.

37 — Emblemes Chrestiens. MS 1624.

38 — New Testament. London, 1625.

39 — New Testament and Psalms. London, 1630.

40 — Henshaw, Horæ Successivæ. London, 1632.

41 — Psalms. London, 1633.

42 — Psalms. London, 1635.

43 — Psalms. London, 1633.

44 — Bible. London, 1638.

45 — Psalms. London, 1639.

46 — The Way to True Happiness. London, 1639.

47 — New Testament. London, 1640.

48 — Psalms. London, 1641.

49 — Psalms. London, 1643.

50 — Psalms. London, 1643.

51 — Psalms. London, 1646.

52 — Bible. London, 1646.

Index