Keywords: El Liberalismo convencido por sus mismos escritos - Upper cover (c154h20).jpg Style Frame Cortina or curtain; Caption Upper cover; Colour Red; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc Part of the Charles Ramsden Collection of Signed Bindings object history Text 1830; Madrid; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding Spain place of discovery Works on Spanish bookbindings include Hispanic Society of America An Album of Selected Bookbindings New York 1967 by C L Penney First half century Spain encuadernación de cortina corner decoration This style was adopted in Spain under the reign of Ferdinand VII 1784-1833 between about 1810 and 1830 The curtain motif can appear in in the corners in the borders and in the spine compartments This style was successfully adopted by Antonio Suárez Some English examples of this kind are known This decoration was even adopted on carpets of the royal Madrid factory later than 1820 This example appears unusual as the curtains are at top and tail M López Serrano Le décor de cortina p 22-34; F Macchi - L Macchi Dizionario illustrato p 99-100 See H M Nixon Broxbourne Library Styles and designs of bookbindings p 210-211 n 104 on Oficio de la semana santa y pascua de Resurreccion Madrid Imprenta de Repullés 1825 Great bndings from the Spanish royal collections Madrid 2012 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000001348 ImageId ImageId 40279 Copyright BL El Liberalismo convencido por sus mismos escritos Uploaded with GWToolset El Liberalismo convencido por sus mismos escritos - Upper cover c154h20 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/4866_4 jpg 19th-century bookbinding Bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |