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 71
ey werecareful in their preparation. They had also their largepaper copies, and what may be called their hot-pressedproductions, still notable in our day, being twicepolished with pumice.3 That the art must have arrived at a considerable degree ofperfection is further confirmed by the accounts of… … IVORY DIPTYCH, IN THE LIBRARY OFTHE VATICAN, ROME. Palasogr. Graecs, 26. 2 De Ornament. Lib. Vet. Disp., iii. 166.Notes to Catullus, Ode xix. 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…
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