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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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Type Description Contributor Date
Added media and top questions. Sep 03, 2026
Added metadata and cross references. Aug 04, 2026
Added photographs. Feb 03, 2015
Invalidated site: British Library Database of Bookbindings. Jul 22, 2014
Media added. Jun 04, 2008
Added new Web site: Bookbinding: A Tutorial by Douglas W. Jones. Jun 14, 2006
Added new Web site: Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books - A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology. Jun 01, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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