Bookbindings old and new; notes of a book-lover, with an account of the Grolier Club of New York; (1895)
Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 · New York, London : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 144
gotten horrors of leather,whom Satan hath bound, if it is permissibleto borrow a scriptural quotation from thatlearned book-lover, the late Henry Stevens ofVermont. But the very best of M M. Cape, Cuzin,Chambolle-Duru, De Samblancx, Gruel andEngelmann, Joly, Lortic, Marius-Michel, Nied-ree, Quinet,… … A BINDING BY FRANCISQUE CUZIN.123 Bookbindings Old and New. 125 scarcely be opened, and so compacted that if itis opened unwarily the back is broken beyondrepair. Books I have seen fresh from the handsof a Parisian binder as brilliant as a jewel-casket, and as hard to open as a safe-deposit…
Grolier Club · Bookbinding
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