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 71
opies, and what may be called their hot-pressedproductions, still notable in our day, being twicepolished with pumice. That the art must have arrived at a considerable degree ofperfection is further confirmed by the accounts of the number of volumes containedin their public libraries, and which of… … DIPTYCH, IN THE LIBRARYTHE VATICAN, ROME. Palaeogr. CrajcaV 26. BOOKS IN THE TIMES OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS. 49 of seven hundred thousand volumes, and in the one subsequently formed at Constanti-nople of upwards of a hundred and twenty thousand volumes, doubtless not onlythe common necessity of…
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