Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 326
ry.424 BINDINGS OP BOOKS. Most booklovers in all ages have desired to see theirtreasured volumes fitly, and even splendidly,clad. Chaucers « Clerke of Oxenford pre-ferred to see— At his bedes hedeTwenty bokes clothed in blake and rede asseverates— It wold haue made a man whole that had been right… … ANTIQUE PATTERN FORBOOK SIDE. 280 Artistic Homes. 425. UNIFORMITY versus VARIETY. It is a disputed questionamongst book possessors of taste whether the whole of a small collec-tion should be bound in the same material, and of the same colour orwhether diversity should prevail. There are valid…
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