The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 542
pièce of leather was stretched over theedge to préserve it from dust, if the book was valuable, and the volume wastied up with a strap passed round it many times, and which was subsequentlyreplaced by clasps. In certain instances the volume was enveloped mthick cloth, and even enclosed in a case of… … 47^ BOOKBINDING. Ugatores Ubrontm (bookbinders). Bookbinding, however, was not an artverj generally knovm, for square books, notwitbstanding the convenience oftheir sbape, had not yet superseded rolls ; but we see, in tbe Notices of tbeDignities of the Eastern Empire (Xotitia Dignitatum Imperii),…
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