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 220
eorge H. Boughton and Mr. E. A.Abbey ? Simplicity is an ingredient of dignity, andthere are book-lovers who love simplicity aboveall things, having a Jansenist taste even incloth bindings. There is nothing noisy orfussy in the cover of Mr. Harold Frederics In the Valley, due to the pencil of… … 20I Bookbindings Old and New. 203 Holmess Over the Tea-cups with its vigor-ous lettering, and its subordinate teapot of afashion now gone by. None of Mrs. Whit-mans book-covers are frivolous or finicky ; theyhave always reserve and purity. Yet decorations of this chaste severity arenot alone on our…
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