Digby 1963

Digby, George Wingfield. Elizabethan Embroidery. London: Faber and Faber, 1963.

book bindings, "almost always professional work" (96)

pl. 41 -- Archbishop Parker's De Antiquitate Ecclesiae Britannicae (1572)

pl. 42 -- Orationes Dominicae Explicatio, printed in Geneva (1583), owned by Q. Elizabeth

pl. 43 -- Douce Bible, offered by the printer Christoper Barker to the Queen as a New Year gift, 1583-1584

cushions, perhaps used for jewelry, or to hold books with delicate bindings; Davenport cites a cushion that matches a bookbinding