Historic bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : with reproductions of twenty-four of the finest bindings (1891)
Brassington, William Salt, 1859-1939, Bodleian Library · London : Sampson Low, Marston and Co. · leaf 14
he books it contains.In the case of an ancient institution like the Bodleian the connexionis both close and interesting; as intimate as that of the binding tothe book. To quote the words of a celebrated living statesman, The binding of a book is the dress with which it walks out intothe world. The… … TLbe precursors of tbe Bobleian. eneath the Oxford of to-day repose the remains of acity of the past, monastic rather than collegiate;a city with buildings and institutions rivalingthose of modern Oxford in extent and in beauty.St. Frideswides nunnery, now Christ Church, wasthe nucleus around which…
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