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 34
iod was that the workmenemployed in Italy were more intelligent andbetter educated. In a book printed by Aldusin 1513, the notice to the binder is in Greek!Ambroise Firmin-Didot explained the anomalyof this apparently extraordinary culture on thepart of the handicraftsmen of that era by sug-gesting… … Bookbindings Old and New. 17 remember the influence exercised on the Italianrenascence by the personal presence of theGreeks; and in no art was this influence moreimmediate, more permanent, or more beneficial,than in the art of bookbinding. We know that Grolier was in Italy in 1512,and that he was…
Grolier Club · Bookbinding
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