cottage style ( cottage roof )
A style of book decoration in which the top and
bottom of a center rectangular panel slope away
from a broken center, producing a kind of gabled
effect. The spaces are filled in, at times, with
French sprays and branches in combination with
lacework, and sometimes with the same small tools
used in the fan ornament. Although this style of
decoration may have originated in France, perhaps
as early as 1630, it is most characteristic of
English binding of the late 17th century (c 1660)
to about 1710. The style was still being used on
pocket almanacs and devotional books as late as,
or even later than, 1822. (124 , 158 , 172 , 281 )
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