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 38
that perhaps Grolier him-self designed the graceful arabesques and inter-woven bands which characterize the covers ofhis books. Compared with the other bindingsof the same time, and of the same country,those of Grolier are distinguished by an un-equalled and unfailing taste. They are closelyakin to… … Bookbindings Old and New. 21 own; they are the result of a finer artisticsense; and the longer I study the books boundduring the Italian renascence, the more I aminclined to agree with Fournier when heasserts that Grolier, with Italian methods,created a French art. Certainly he gave tohis library…
Grolier Club · Bookbinding
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