modeled-leather covers
A method of decorating a book in which the leather
cover is molded, cut, or hammered to raise a
design in relief, or in which the leather is laid
over a decorative foundation attached to the
boards. The style is found on the Stonyhurst
Gospel (7th or 8th century) and on some Coptic
bindings of 100 or 200 years later, but is not
seen again, at least in British craft bookbinding,
until the end of the 19th century. (236 )
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