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 238
bindings; they are more or less artistic bindings done chiefly by hand, but done wholesale. Generally they are to be avoided by all who hope to see their books really well bound, for they lack the loving care with which a conscientious craftsman treats the single volume intrusted to him to bind as… … Designed by Stanford White. Published by the Century Co. THE CENTURY DICTIONARY. 217 Bookbindings Old and New. 21 g and thoroughly finished: but for the most partthey are hasty and soulless. To the true book-lovers eye no crushedlevant can be too fine or too magnificent for thebook he truly loves :…
Grolier Club · Bookbinding
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