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Ornately decorated book binding for John Milton's Paradise Regained, featuring gold detailing, floral patterns, and a central illustration of a long-tailed bird.

Ornate edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost, bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, open to a page with gold embossed text and decorative borders, with a textured snakeskin pattern on the inside cover.

Benedictine monk Dom Placido Bortolaso in a robe carefully restoring old book covers at a worktable in the Vatican Institute, surrounded by tools and stacks of books.

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Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson

British book designer