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CONTENTS AND LIST OF PLATES

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GENERAL INTRODUCTION, ix
By Alfred W. Pollard.

ENGLISH EMBROIDERED BINDINGS
By Cyril Davenport.


CHAPTER I.--Introductory, 1

PLATES.
1. Embroidered Bag for Psalms. _London_, 1633, 17
2. Embroidered Cover for New Testament. _London_, 1640, 18


CHAPTER II.--Books Bound in Canvas, 28

PLATES.
3. The Felbrigge Psalter. 13th-century MS., 29
4. The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul. MS. by
the Princess Elizabeth. 1544, 32
5. Prayers of Queen Katherine Parr. MS. by the
Princess Elizabeth. 1545, 33