The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 540
iece of leather was stretched over theedge to preserve it from dust, if the book was valuable, and the volume wastied up with a strap passed round it many times, and which was subsequentlyreplaced by clasps. In certain instances the volume was enveloped inthick cloth, and even enclosed in a case of… … 472 BOOKBINDING. ligatores librarian (bookbinders). Bookbinding, however, was not an artvery generally known, for square books, notwithstanding the convenience oftheir shape, had not yet superseded rolls ; but we see, in the Notices of theDignities of the Eastern Empire ( Notitia Dignitatum…
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