Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 70
er 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 beenintroduced about the same time as… … ;^€:L<^g^g^g^grg<r^^^s^^st^>g)g>€^g^gy^^g Fig. 52.—Painted Persian binding (Nadii Shah, at the battle of Karnul). 58 THE BOOK: ITS IIISTOEY AND DEVELOPMENT. as these can generally be soaked apart and cleaned, wealready owe the preservation of several unique fragmentsto the fact of their…
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