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 128
t days of1890, or who will take the trouble to turn thepages of M. Octave Uzannes La ReliureModerne, must confess that there are very fewfinishers of our time who have originality ofinvention, freshness of composition, or individu-ality of taste. But a comparison of the bestbound books of this… … Bookbindings Old and New. 111 far better than any which has come down tous from our ancestors. There is better forward-ing and better finishing. In the gold-toolingespecially the modern workman is incomparablyneater, cleaner, more exact, more conscientious,than his predecessor: the tooling of the…
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