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 241
that the volume is nowpermanently clothed, and that there will there-fore be no need to rebind it. Although plates were engraved even in thefifteenth century to stamp the sides of leather- 220 Bookbindings Old and New. bound books, the practice had long ceased exceptso far as dictionaries,… … Designed by George Wharton Edwards. Published by the Century Co.THUMB-NAIL SKETCHES, BY GEORGE WHARTON EDWARDS. quality of modern commercial bookbindingthat it has separated itself wholly from thetraditions of hand-tooling, and that it standson its own merits. Consider the massiveand substantial…
Grolier Club · Bookbinding
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