A Bible, printed in London in 1583, was embroidered and bound for Queen Elizabeth, and presented to her in 1584, and is now in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. It is a folio book, measuring almost 17 x 12 inches, and is bound in crimson velvet. Upon each board is a very graceful design of rose-branches, intertwined. There are four large roses and two smaller ones, all embroidered in silver and gold braid and colored threads, with here and there a few small pearls. A narrow border runs round the edge, embroidered in gold thread and colored silk.

A remarkable binding on calf, executed for Queen Elizabeth, is on a large Bible printed at Lyons, measuring 16 1/2 inches by 11, each board being double (Fig. 12). The upper board is pierced in several places, showing underneath it a lower level covered with green calf, and decorated with small stars and arabesques. The upper boards on both sides of the book are elaborately stamped in gold and painted in enamel colors, and in each case an oval, painted panel occupies the centre. The upper cover of the book has in the central oval a charming sunk miniature portrait of Elizabeth as a young woman) dressed in jeweled robes and head-dress) and carrying a sword or scepter. The portrait is enclosed in a very delicately painted frame of jeweled goldsmith's work. This painting is unfortunately damaged) especially in the face) and it seems to be executed in opaque water-colors) varnished, on vellum. Immediately round the miniature) on the leather) is a very elaborately painted and gilded oval ribbon with the words" ELIZABETH DEI GRATIA ANG. FRAN. HIB. REGINA." The broad) irregular) oval border itself has a design of interlacing fillets and floral emblems of considerable beauty) winged horses and Cupids, all picked out in colors. This very large stamp) measuring 9 inches in length) which is now and then found on books other than royal) is the largest English stamp known to me. There are cartouches left in the upper leather above and below this central arrangement) and they are of a similar ornamentation and color) as are also the very handsome corners. The other side of the book is similarly decorated) with the differences that the centre painting) by the same hand) is the royal coat-of-arms of England in an egg-shaped) oval form) surrounded by the Garter) within an Elizabethan scroll. Over the crown is a canopy of green and red) and the supporters of the lion and red dragon are in their proper places. Underneath the coat is the motto" DIEU ET MON DROIT" on an ornamental panel) and the legend lettered on the leather immediately surrounding the painting reads" POSUI DEUM ADIVTOREM MEUM." On the lower cartouche on this side is the date of the binding, "MDLXVIII." This binding, when new, must have been one of the finest and most elaborately decorated of any of the leather bindings made for an English sovereign. The back of the volume, nearly 5 inches in width, is also very finely ornamented with an Elizabethan pattern outlined in gold and colored in keeping with the rest of the ornamental work. Its present condition is unfortunate. The restorations, which have been largely added) have, however) the merit of being at once apparent, as little or no trouble has been in this case taken to reproduce the old stamps. The gilt edges are beautifully gauffred, and are picked out here and there with color. The design is a complicated arabesqrie with masks, and on the lower edge a curious design of an animal resembling a unicorn.