Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · London : Constable · leaf 70
iouspeculiarity, and I have never met with it in any foreignbooks. Wooden boards were used for bindings until about theend of the fifteenth century, when the idea of using severallayers of paper pasted together—paste boards—was thoughtof. In fact, paste boards may be considered to have… … Fig. 52.—Painted Persian binding (Nadir Shah at the battle of Karnul). 58 THE BOOK: ITS HISTOEY AND DEVELOPMENT. as these can generally be soaked apart and cleaned, wealready owe the preservation of several unique fragmentsto the fact of their having been used for bindings. Persian manuscripts of…
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