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 66
in excuse to Manliusfor not sending him some verses, pleadshaving only one box of his books with him.This also proves that the Romans were in thehabit of taking a number of books with themto whatever place business or pleasure mightlead, forming a sort of travelling library, asone of these boxes… … ROMAN BOOK-BOX. III. While the roll was the form adopted for the more lengthy works by the Greeks andRomans, they appear for a long period to have made use of table books, or pugillaria(literally handbooks, so called on account of their small dimensions, which allowed oftheir being held in the hand…
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