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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 57

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e, but as mentioned byLicinius Maccr, who states that linen books were kept in the temple of Juno Moneta/They were not books in a restricted sense, but simply very ancient annals and booksof magistrates, and were written certainly as early as 440 B.C. Livy also speaks ofa Samnite ritual-book as… … ANCIENT ROMAN READING. {From a painting found at Pompeii. 1 Fabricius Biblical Antiq., chap, xix., p. 607.- Suetonius, Jul., 56.ti d by Birt, p. 444. 1 Smiths Diet, of Antiq., sub Liber.u Livy, iv. 7, 13, 20, 23.0 Ibid., x. 38. BOOKS IN THE TIMES OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS. 35 together in a primitive…

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