Bookbindings old and new : notes of a book-lover, with account of the Grolier club of New York (1896)
Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 · London : G. Bell · leaf 110
to expose the other tenth to a damagingcomparison. These remarks, of course, applyonly to the binders whose work was done beforethe beginning of the nineteenth century. Oflate years the superiority of French binders hasbeen undisputable, but it has not been over-whelming. There are at present in… … BOOKBINDINGS OF THEPRESENT. BOOKBINDINGS OF THEPRESENT. L THE TECHNIC OF THE CRAFT. As there is unfortunately no word in theEnglish language to describe those familiar, yetdignified, poems which in France are known asvers de societe, and which are far above ordinary society verse, and as there is…
Grolier Club · Bookbinding
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