Yes of course! It's in the record I linked further down the thread:
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Rare Book Collection;
stc smb 00007 RESTRICTED
librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/permalink/01...
What era is she most interested in? We have some later examples at the Newberry...
Also, here's the back (second front?) cover! Look at those color gradations! (They are very similar, but the leaves are less threadbare on this side.) 🌿
Wonder if Mary did the embroidery herself?
HER Book!
A Mary Poll laid claim to this fabulous double volume in 1748.
Here's the record... Which doesn't seem to mention her... Yet!
librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/permalink/01...
Here you go!
archive.org/details/gene...
Thanks @starcrossed2018.bsky.social and @liamsims.bsky.social, from your record, that one looks to also be dos-Ã -dos!
Curious to know what books are in your St Andrews example, @noraepstein.bsky.social! Mostly devotional?
OK! I'll Wear Gardening Gloves
Made a rare exception, putting on cotton gloves to examine a gorgeous floral English embroidered dos-Ã -dos binding at the Fisher Library yesterday! (The metallic thread made them necessary.) Like the Newberry puzzle binding, it's 17th c. and religious in nature...
