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 26
once and flourishingtogether; and he had the good judgment toaid in the development of the art of book-binding to which he attached his name insep-arably. The art was not new when he beganto collect the best works of the best printers,but it was about to have a new birth; and whenit was born again,… … Bookbindings Old and New. 9 protecting cylinder to guard the scrolls of papy-rus on which Vergil, and Horace, and Martialhad written their verses. Before the invention of printing, the choicermanuscripts, books of hours, and missals, weremade even more valuable by sides of carvedivory, or of…
Grolier Club · Bookbinding
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