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 82
andMr. Cobden-Sanderson, when I asked him whomhe held to be the greatest of all binders, didnot hesitate, but answered promptly and posi-tively, Le Gascon. As Keats has been calledthe poets poet, so is Le Gascon the book-binders bookbinder. But it does not need thetrained eye of the expert to… … Bookbindings Old and New. 65
Grolier Club · Bookbinding
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