Roger Payne (bookbinder)

[2] After a time, however, the brothers parted, and Payne, later in life, took as his fellow-worker Richard Wier, whose wife became known as a repairer and restorer of old books.

[2] Payne, considered by some to have originated a new style of bookbinding, was influenced by the work of Samuel Mearne and other binders of the end of the 17th century.

His most significant work was executed either in Russia leather or in straight-grained Morocco, usually of a dark blue, bright red, or olive colour.

A large-paper copy of Robert Potter's translation of Æschylus, printed at Glasgow in 1795, in which are contained John Flaxman's original drawings, bound in blue Morocco, has been called Payne's masterpiece.

Other noted works were: Thomas East's edition of the Storye of Kynge Arthur, bound in red Morocco, and the Genoa edition of Tasso's Gierusalemme Liberata, 1590, in olive Morocco (British Library); and a copy of the First Folio of Shakespeare, 1623, bound in Russia, once in the Britwell Court Library.