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 318
igns full of thedelightful freedom of the richest period of theFranco-Italian renascence. It is small wonder that a library called intobeing with such exceeding care and so adornedby the cunning of the most adroit workmenshould have high repute, and that when it wasdispersed, a hundred years and… … GROLIER CLUB BOOK PLATE. 299 Bookbindings Old and New. 301 until a single tome has been sold by auction fornearly six thousand dollars — this is the noblecopy of Heliodorus owned by Mr. Hoe. InParis the National Library, and in Londonthe British Museum, are fortunate in the pos-session of books…
Grolier Club · Bookbinding
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