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 64
,in making an excavation in a garden at Resina, in the remains of a house supposed to havebelonged to L. Piso, a great number of papyrus rolls were found. They were ranged inpresses round the sides of a small room, in the centre of which was a sort of rectangularbookcase ; many of the rolls were at… … 42 BOOKS OF THE ANCIENTS. colour given by age, took them to be sticks of charcoal. When, however, it wasdiscovered that they were ancient manuscripts, the attention of the learned was directedtowards their preservation. Father Piaggi invented a machine for unrolling them ; butmany of them have been…
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