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 98
of the early prin-ters. The Aldi were binders as well asprinters, and the same devices decorated theirnoble folios both within and without. Geof-frey Tory, the author of Champ Fleury,who reformed the art of type-founding andbrought about the abandonment of black-letter, was a printer who was also a… … ARIOSTO, ORLANDO FURIOSO. VENICE, 1584. BINDING OF DEROME THEYOUNGER. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. (BY PERMISSION OF DAMASCENEMORGAND.) 77 Bookbindings Old and New. 79 The solidarity of the decorative arts, atleast, is indisputable. Even the casual ob-server cannot but note the hints of designborrowed and…
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