They still produce good work of this class, cast and afterwards cleaned and tooled with the chisel, but it is not equal to the work of the same description by GouthiA"re, and the famous ciseleurs of Paris in the last century.
The face is very much tooled and filed, and the lips and nose flattened by filing.
Small 8vo, red morocco, back and sides exquisitely tooled after the manner of Roger Payne, gilt edges.
The workman who tooled the binding here reproduced from the curious example of M.
His full calf books, with handsomely tooled backs, are models of solidity and taste; and his decorations on the sides of morocco-bound books are always in good taste, and often of great elegance.
Tooled into the upper fan is an eagle-on-cannon device with a stack of 6 cannon balls under the trail; an arc of 15 stars partially surrounds the eagle device.
This specification gives some validity to the belief that a cockade with an approximation of the artillery button tooled on it may also have been worn.
This cockade, of black tooled leather with painted gold fan tips, was a common form of the period and was worn with an eagle in the center or possibly on the upper fan.
Half my friends had them, or meant to have them; but in a kind of lofty obstinacy I had refused to be a "tooled down" to Brighton or elsewhere.
In any case, if the Princess were going to Monte Carlo, there would the Fairy Prince be also, and I did not see why I should not be there too, whether Molly and Jack tooled me down in their motor or not.
Some similar calendars in tiny leather bindings, beautifully tooled and ornamented in gold, are also collectable.
The bindings of presentation books may be of rich calf and tooled in gold; some may even have edge paintings and choice hand-painted illuminations.
The Wedgwood cameo gems so varied and so very minutely tooled require proper display; according to their colours so should they be arranged on a velvet or cloth background with an ample margin to separate them.
Our last load over to the Harris shack was ferried and tooled through a batter.
The depth of pressing down the background is a matter of taste, but it should be tooled down enough to make the design stand out plainly.
It is placed on the moistened leather and lined, tooled or stamped as described for the cardcase.
Let the binder clothe an early Rabelais or Marot in the style favoured by Grolier, in leathertooled with geometrical patterns.
Mr. Toovey possesses a copy of a devotional work in red morocco, tooled and gilt, which she presented to a friendly abbess.
I've tooled lots o' pairs to the Derby since then, and I tell you some curious couples I've carried.
Pretty sight to see COPP'S mail, the Defiance brought at a trot between the two gate-posts, and tooled round the small lawn up to the Valley of Rocks Hotel, Lynton.
For two years stress and struggle had tooled away every roughness and left the accomplished promise, a man wrought by circumstance to a great fineness.
These seven months of thought and calculation had left their mark upon it--thinned and refined its lines, tooled the features into an almost intellectual cast.
Newly and very handsomely bound in 3/4 levant morocco extra, gilt tooledbacks with inlays, gilt tops, uncut.
He touched his cap again when he closed the door on her, and the car tooled away along a road which bore the same relation to the roads with which Jennie was familiar as a glorified spirit to a living man.
A prie-dieu in a corner supported a bible and a prayer-book in tooled bindings with a coat of arms.
A handsome box is made of soft wood or cardboard and covered with tooled or embossed leather and is a possession that a queen might envy.
The deeper the tooled line the handsomer the piece.
While he tooled the gry a rani pookered him, "Rikker this trushni to my ker, an' I'll del tute a trin grushi.
He del it some hopium drab to hatch adoi, and tooled his solivengro upo the purgis.
It was red morocco with a broad tooled border and centre panels.
Leather either decorated in mosaic or tooled in gold formed a perfect covering for these marvels of typography, and from the end of the fifteenth century to the present revival of decorated leather both styles have been much in use.
It took the two men a matter of seconds to get the horse on his feet, and no fire-engine ever left the station house one fraction faster than Dick tooled that dog-cart.
Gold-tooled lines have in themselves such great beauty, that designers are often tempted to make them meander about the cover in a weak and aimless way.
Designs for gold-tooled binding should always be constructed on some geometrical plan, and whatever pattern there is, symmetrically distributed over the cover.
When he has grasped this, he has grasped the underlying principle of nearly all successful tooled ornament.
The book is then put in the finishing press, with the board to be tooled open and flat on the cheek of the press, unless the book is a large one, when it is easier to tool the sides out of the press.
For tooled work it is worth paying the increased price for the sake of the advantages in colour and solidity; but for lines and edges, which use up an immense amount of gold, the thinner and cheaper gold may quite well be used.
The inside of the board is sometimes covered all over with leather, and tooled as elaborately, or more elaborately, than the outside.
Finishing press, a small press used for holding books when they are being tooled (see Fig.
One method of arranging gold-tooled lines is to treat them in design as if they were wires in tension, and knot and twist them together.
In designing heraldic blocks it is well to get a good deal of solid flat surface of gold to make the blocked design stand out from any gold-tooled work on the cover.
It is not at all an uncommon thing to see the effect of an otherwise admirably tooled binding spoilt by a dark margin round the tools, caused by the careless use of glaire.
Many of them became apt students of architecture and proficient in executing hand-tooled enriched moldings and other ornament for mantels and chimney pieces.
The best exterior feature of the building is the beautifully hand-tooled cornice with its coved member having a series of recessed arches and the well-known Grecian band or double denticulated molding beneath.
The pediment framing the simple but very graceful fanlight is enriched by cornice moldings, hand-tooled to fine scale, the soffit of the corona being fluted, the bed-molding reeded and the dentil course being a familiar Grecian fret.
Elaborate molded wood cornices were a feature, often with prominent, even hand-tooled modillions.
A simple, hand-tooled ovolo ornaments the jambs and architrave casings of the keyed arch.
Like those of the other doors and windows, the casings are of architrave pattern and in the center of the round arch is a keystone-shaped ornament hand-tooled in wood.
The pilaster projections tying the panel treatment to the cornice bear three nicely tooled vertical flower designs in a row, an unusual conception.
Here, however, the effect is slightly enriched by a nicely hand-tooled ovolo molding in the cornice of the penthouse roof that is repeated with an elliptical fan design in the pediment of the hood.
Effective use is made of a reeded ovolo, and the fascia of the architrave bears a pleasing hand-tooled band of vertical flutes with a festooned flat fillet running through it.
It is supported on opposite sides by well-proportioned fluted pilasters with nicely tooled Ionic capitals and heavy molded bases.
It has fluted columns, an intricately hand-tooled dentil course in the cornice, richly incised architraves and carved ovolo moldings.
In this latter respect its best features are the cornice with its beautifully enriched moldings and modillions, the balustrade above, the window heads supported by hand-tooled consoles and the insert panels under the portico.
The Binding of Books An Essay in the History of Gold-Tooled Bindings By Herbert P.
Square 8vo, red morocco, back tooled with appropriate emblems, sides panelled with a design in relief introducing portraits of Walton and Cotton, &c.
It is in brown leather; blind-tooled except for some gold and coloured roundels in different parts of the device.
Caxton bound his according to the prevailing fashion, with leather sides, plain or blind-tooled with diagonal lines, forming diamond-shaped compartments in each of which is stamped a species of dragon.
On a wall-rack lay two walking-sticks and a gold-mounted hunting-crop, and on a great carved chest below it had been flung an opened book bound in tooled leather.
When his shuffling step had retreated, Valiant went to the table and picked up a slim tooled volume that lay there.
