Thomas Miller Common Wayside Flowers
(Routledge, 1860)
C.44.d.6.      23x18 cm

Bound by Bone in morocco-grain cloth over bevelled boards with varnished printed paper onlays by Edmund Evans. The binding is signed with the gold-tooled initials of the designer (AW for Albert Henry Warren) in the centre of the lower ivy leaf border.

1860s

Dot, line and sand grained cloth became popular.

Use of black and coloured ink blocking increased; prior to this black ink designs frequently smeared.

Bevelled edged boards were common