Binding. Scottish (Edinburgh), mid 18th century. Dark green
goatskin; decorated with gilt tooling in a classic Scottish
'herring-bone' pattern.
Scottish decorative gilt tooling. Scottish (Edinburgh), mid 18th
century. Dark green goatskin; decorated with gilt tooling in a
classic Scottish 'herring-bone' pattern. One of four standard
designs recognizable as purely Scottish in the 18th century, the
herring-bone style first appeared on Scottish bindings in the
1670s, and was used in many variant forms by Scottish binders until
the 1750s.
