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 42
■ ■ ■■■■ ■■ .:; •■■. • ■ > - -■ , ^ *£P~ ■ … THE ROSETTA STONE. We have seen that among the Assyrians clay was the material par excellence usedfor literary purposes. In Egypt the papyrus reed furnished the paper on which thescribes chiefly wrote. From the country of the Pharaohs comes the oldest known paperbook in the world, the Papyrus…
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