16th-century panel-stamped calf bearing a double-headed eagle, possibly French. From a volume containing two sets of commentaries on Old Testament prophets by Franz Lambert (both 1525).

From the library of William Crashaw.

16th-century English (Cambridge) blind-stamped binding, with initials N.S., i.e. Nicholas Spierinck (for rolls see Oldham's English blind-stamped bindings, plate 37, no. 562, AN.f2, and plate 39, no. 604, DI.a2).

16th-century English (Cambridge) blind-stamped binding, with initials G.G., i.e. Garrett Godfrey (for rolls see Oldham's English blind-stamped bindings, plate 37, fig. 561, AN.f1, and plate 39, fig. 593, DI.a1). From a volume containing John Fisher's Assertionis Lutheranae confutatio (Antwerp, 1523).

16th-century English panel-stamped calf bearing a front panel with the baptism of Christ and a rear panel with the Annunciation (Oldham, Blind panels of English binders, BIB.1 & BIB.16). The front panel also has the initials A.R. in the border, denoting that it belonged to the London binder Andrew Ruwe. From a volume containing two works of canon law published in 1513.

From the library of William Crashaw.

16th-century English panel-stamped calf (for panels see Oldham's Blind panels of English binders, plate 21, HE.26, and plate 41, RO.21).

16th-century panel-stamped calf bearing a panel with a design incorporating acorns on the front, and a panel with portraits of four saints on the rear (Catherine, Peter, Paul & Barbara). From Pius II's Cosmographia (Paris, 1509).

16th-century English English panel-stamped calf bearing the arms of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon over wooden boards (see Oldham's "Blind panels of English binders", plate 15, HE 3 & 4), with the remains of book-clasps. From Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae (1503).

Bequest of Francis Dee.

16th-century English blind-stamped calf bearing the only known examples of these panels, one depicting a Tudor Rose, the other Christ in an Image of Pity (see Oldham's Blind panels of English binders, plate 38, RO.11, and page 32, REL.13). From a Sarum Breviary (1499).

15th-century English (Oxford?) blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, bearing a selection of characteristic floral stamps which have given the name the "Floral Binder" to the man who bound it (for stamps see Oldham's Blind-stamped English bindings, plate 18, figs. 167, 172, 174 and 168?).

15th-century blind-stamped calf over wooden boards with the author's name "Bartholomeus" as a title stamped in Gothic script in the top border of the front cover, and roll containing rose motif; impressions of 5 bosses on both covers (4 corners, 1 central), and book clasps. This style occured in Nuremberg at the end of 15th-century and continued into the 16th century.