The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 546
ention being givento the binding, which was merely intended to préserve the volumes. Manydocuments bear witness to the great care and précision with which, incertain monasteries, books were bound and preserved. Ail sorts of skinswere employed in covering them when they had been once pressed… … PANEL OF A BOOK COVER. Bas-relief m Goid Keponssé- NinUi Centary i in ft« Lo^Te bï y maSt. eue I bsi tlat fetB BOOKBINDING. 473 It must be admitted that \ve, perhaps, owe to tlieir rich liiudius, wliicliwere well calculated to tempt thieves, the destruction of a uuuibtr ofvaluable manuscripts wben…
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