The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times by WR Symms (1860).
From the days when blocking was an art. One of a number of lavish board designs which can be found at Fromoldbooks.org.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The book covers archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Decorated Russian book covers
• The Hetzel editions of Jules Verne