FROM THE INVENTION OF PRINTING.

95

POSVI. DEVM. ADIVTOREM. MEVM.

One of the compartments, under the portrait of thequeen, is filled up with the following design, workedin gold.

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The book is seventeen inches long, and near elevenwide. The edges are gilt upon red, with minutedotted scroll-work added.

Another book of Elizabeth’s, in the British Museum ,“ Petri Bembi Cardinalis Historise Venetise, lib. xii.,”a folio printed at Venice in 1551, is a curious speci-men of binding. The book has no back, but has beencut like the edges and stabbed through, a piece ofgilt paper being pasted over. The boards are fastenedto the leaves and project over on all sides, similar tothe Ceylonese style, which will be seen further on.The boards are covered with brown calf, and a scrollpattern in gold worked on them. The inside of thescrolls are stained black, and the gilding is not wellexecuted. In one circle formed on the side is lettered