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 32
r sheets ofpaper; and myriads of pages of books no longerin fashion were thus destroyed to stiffen thecovers of newer volumes. In our day manyinteresting fragments of forgotten authors, andnot a few curious and instructive engravings,have been rescued from oblivion, when thedecay of old book-covers… … Bookbindings Old and New. 13 covering a volume in seemly fashion. In manya monastery the binderies must have been in-creased hastily to meet the demand; and wecan trace the handiwork of these monasticcraftsmen by the designs they imprinted onthe covers of the books they bound — designsmade up…
Grolier Club · Bookbinding
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