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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 181

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which is said to have been brought from the East after the fallof Constantinople in 1453, is the running of a groove down the edge of the cover. It was not till the introduction of gold-tooline o fc> that Italian binding made any perceptible differ-ence to French or English art, and its only… … Gtaiennffiate

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