A Unique Mid-20thC Oxford University Professors Leather Journal Cover

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A Unique Mid-20thC Oxford University Professors Leather Journal CoverOrigin: English Period: Mid 20thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1940 60 Height: 11 Width: 7 Depth: 2 (at spine) The wonderfully tactile tooled book cover in black Moroccan leather with a large and detailed sprawling tan leather dragon to the front, in high relief and expertly worked, its tail curved to create three circles with the monogram MH within one, the reverse with the Oxford University coat of arms in tan, the motto reading "Dominus Illuminatio

We have administered some stich repairs and it has been cleaned

There are only very minor scuffs commensurate with its vintage

typography and architecture — which aligned them in their aesthetic and utopianism to their counterparts at the Bauhaus

The two flanks read “Fry’s Sweet Chocolate

of the highest quality and rare in its choice of carving

The history of modern swivel chairs dates back to 1775

with one human face missing

Origin: ItalianPeriod: Early/Mid 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c

a certain Mr Bramston(

The Victorian period money box

and is seen in ‘The Manor House’ at Hitchin

That lightning strike so wondrously true