[Illustration: Passionale, etc., MS., _circa_ 1100 A.D. Henry I.] ROYAL ENGLISH BOOKBINDINGS _By_ CYRIL DAVENPORT, F.S.A. _Of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum_ LONDON SEELEY AND CO. LIMITED, GREAT RUSSELL STREET NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO. 1896 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _COLOURED PLATES_ PAGE I. Passionale, etc., MS., _circa_ 1100 A.D. Henry I. _Frontispiece_ II. Penitential Psalms, etc., MS., sixteenth century Henry VIII. 16 Novum Testamentum Græce. Lutetiæ, 1550 (gold centres) Queen Elizabeth 16 III. Deloenus. Libellus de tribus Hierarchiis, etc., MS. Henry VIII. 18 IV. [Greek: BASILIKON DÔRON.] Written for Prince Henry, by King James VI. of Scotland. MS James I. 54 V. Ortelius. Theatre of the World. London, 1606 Do. 58 VI. New Testament, etc. London, 1643 Charles I. 66 VII. Gil. [Greek: PARERGA], etc. Londini, 1632 Do. 68 VIII. Order of the Coronation of George III. and Queen Charlotte. London, 1761 George III. 94 _ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT_ Indentures between Henry VII. and John Islippe, Abbot of Westminster, concerning the foundation of the Chantrey, etc., MS. Henry VII. 11 Opus eximium de vera differentia Regiæ Potestatis et Ecclesiasticæ. Londini, 1534 Henry VIII. 15 Description of the Holy Land, in French. By Martin Brion. MS. Do. 17 Le Chappellet de Ihesus, MS., sixteenth century Margaret Tudor, Queen of James IV. of Scotland 21 Il Petrarcha. Venetia, 1544 Queen Katharine Parr 23 Prayers, etc. Malborow, 1538 (Doublure) Edward VI. 29 Queen Mary's Psalter, MS. Queen Mary 33 Prayers, etc. London, 1574-1591 Queen Elizabeth 35 Christian Meditations, in Latin, 1570 Do. 37 Parker. De antiqvitate Britannicæ Ecclesiæ. London, 1572 Do. 41 Orationis Dominicæ Explicatio, per L. Danaeum. Genevae, 1583 Do. 45 La Saincte Bible. Lyon, 1566 Do. 47 Gospels in Anglo-Saxon and English. London, 1571 Do. 49