A history of the art of bookbinding : with some account of the books of the ancients (1894)
Brassington, William Salt, 1859-1939, editor, Hannett, John, 1803-1893 · London : E. Stock · leaf 125
y whichseeketh to be fed with such ungodly gains, and shameth his natural country. I knowa merchant man, which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of twonoble libraries for forty shillings price ; a shame it is to be spoken. This stuff hath heoccupied in the stead of grey… … ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL BOOKBINDING. 95 To take but a single instance of this wholesale destruction of books and theirbindings—for the subject is a painful one—we may relate that the Commissioners of thatmisguided boy Edward VI. came to Oxford in the year 1550, and found the magnificentpublic…
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