modern monastic
A style of bookbinding which characteristically
employed very thick boards, red, brown, or gilt
edges, and unusually high raised bands. The usual
leather used was divinity calf, as well as brown
or red morocco. The design was blocked in blind,
or tooled in blind with rolls, fillets and stamps.
It consisted of a center pattern featuring heavy
lines and solid figures within a rectangle, which,
in turn, was within an elaborately embossed
rectangle surrounded by a mitered border. Modern
monastic was very popular in the middle of the
19th century. (241 )
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