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 142
otten horrors of leather,whom Satan hath bound, if it is permissibleto borrow a scriptural quotation from thatlearned book-lover, the late Henry Stevens ofVermont. But the very best of MM. Cape, Cuzin,Chambolle-Duru, De Samblancx, Gruel andEngelmann, Joly, Lortic, Marius-Michel, Nied-ree, Quinet,… … A BINDING BY FRANC1SQUE CUZIN.123 Bookbindings Old and New. 125 scarcely be opened, and so compacted that if itis opened unwarily the back is broken beyondrepair. Books I have seen fresh from the handsof a Parisian binder as brilliant as a jewel-casket, and as hard to open as a safe-deposit…
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