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17th-century gilding and gauffering of the textblock (T.5.7)

17th-century gilding and gauffering of the textblock. The design on the edges incorporates images of birds alighting on foliage and a Jesuit device. From a volume containing a copy of the first printing of the Bible in Armenian (Amsterdam, 1666).

Detail of gauffering showing the design incorporating a birds and foliage and the initials IES
The gauffered design in it's entirety
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