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 40
hat perhaps Grolier him-self designed the graceful arabesques and inter-woven bands which characterize the covers ofhis books. Compared with the other bindingsof the same time, and of the same country,those of Grolier are distinguished by an un-equalled and unfailing taste, They are closelyakin to… … BENKDF.TTlS ANATOMY, 1537. OCTAVO, 4X634 INCHES; BROWN CALK,(FROM SAUVAGE COLLECTION. OWNED BY MR. SAMUEL P. AVERY.) 19 Bookbindings Old and New. 21 own; they are the result of a finer artisticsense; and the longer I study the books boundduring the Italian renascence, the more I aminclined to agree…
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