The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time (1890)
Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899, Grevel, H, Einsle, Anton, 1848-1897 · New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 283
ined a very high degree of perfection. For some 204 The Book. reason, probably owing to the introduction of plates of coppergilt, and of the champlevé (much less expensive than thecloisonné) process of enamelling, the art of ornamental leatherbinding declined in this country. An example of a… … Fig. 149. —Bookbinders sliop in the sixteenth century. Engraving by .lost Amman. The invention of printing led to a great increase in thenumber of books produced, and as a consequence stimulatedthe art of bookbinding. When books were produced singlyby copying, the binder could devote more time to…
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