The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 448
sex and tlw^ fair of tlie oth(»r, books were re(juired moreagreeable to the ey(% and less rough to tlie touch, than those used for theedification of monks or the Instruction of scholars. And first of all weresubstituted, for the purpos(> of manuscripts, sizes more portable than thegrave folio.… … Figr lill-—Banner of the Corporation of Printers-Booksellers of Angers. were to elapse before pasteboard had entirely taken the place of woodencovers. It is in the inventories, in the accounts, and in the archives of kings andprinces, that we must look for the history of bookbinding in the…
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