A history of the art of bookbinding. With some account of the books of the ancients (1894)
Brassington, William Salt, 1859-1939, Hannett, John, 1803-1893 · London, E. Stock · leaf 166
llowing evidence in his Address to the Book-binder :— Has my muse made a fault? Friend, I entreat, Before you bind her up, you would her beat; Though shes not wanton, I can tell, Unless you beat her, youll not bind her well.2 In the public libraries of the Continent—German, French, Italian, Dutch,… … ANCIENT BOOKBINDERS AT WORK, FROM A BOOKOF TRADES. u6 A HISTORY OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING. silver and gold, still exist ; and in the less pretending ones of the monasteries the oakenboards of the fourteenth century, covered with vellum, are found attached to a greatnumber of books, and still in a…
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